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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... social sub- text the poem assumes — and transforms — as a precondition of its own existence . As Fredric Jameson argues in a critique of romance as a narrative genre sedimented with ideological / Utopian class as- pirations and social ...
... social libera- tion - a contradiction Ralph Waldo Emerson later expresses in his will to evoke the sublime of nature ... social pursuit of liberty — that is , of imagined happiness as a basis for virtuous action on a social scale ...
... social power cannot be elided within a vocabulary of liberal accom- odation or rhetorical perpetuity : as Adorno rephrases Kant's all- too - Romantic dilemma , “ By situating the sublime in the awesome- ness of sheer magnitude , i.e. ...
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