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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... rhetoric of cultural empowerment , enact- ing an American troping of the will to spiritualize technology and to dominate the Massachusetts wilderness . Arguing for the emergence of an American sublime in landscape painting from Thomas ...
... rhetoric of poetry's power to " maintain ' the sublime ' / In the old sense " had been brought down , leveled , if not dispersed through contact with ordinary utterances and workaday tones . In a " half savage country " given to ...
... Rhetoric of Its Forms ( New Haven : Yale Univ . Press , 1987 ) , Blasing's close readings of the " disarticulating syntax " in Dickinson , Crane , and Ashbery would correct Emerson - based reifications of the American sublime . On the ...
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