American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic GenreUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1991 - 337 Seiten Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace Stevens put it, the American will takes "dominion everywhere." |
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... represent . How has the language of Amer- ican poetry contended with representing these vast — and shifting— configurations of the material sublime ? As a poetic genre , the American sublime helped to produce the subject and site of ...
... represent the death of the individual mind yet to prefigure , in an affective calculus of awe and terror , the ego's absorption into some vast ontological ground . Only the retreat into moral idea ( Kant ) or into the will to ...
... representing that which eludes formal presentation , in all puniness and insignificance , can come to seem merely comic ... represent " - the innermost grandeur of the human spirit in all its power of crit- ical resistance ( " “ radical ...
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