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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... stance depended upon the quasi - Lockean right of " liberty of conscience " as centered in an individual's unmediated relationship to God . As he wrote to Noah Welles in 1747 , " true Religion consists in the internal purity of the ...
... stance that would make concrete these consequences , " A Weak Mind in the Moun- tains " might overcome the natural sublime of cloud , wind , and mountain which is so abundant in America - as in the landscapes of Cole or Church - with a ...
... stance of naive unknowing that remains founded in a “ surplus of gratitude " before God - engendered formations of the natural sub- lime . Kinnell retreats from machine worship into maxims of earth piety : Awareness of ignorance is as ...
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