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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... style , from which it is impossible to rise or descend without abrupt- ness and violence . . . . 1 Sublime mannerisms that were beholden to the Miltonic epic and neo - Pindaric ode , and imported ( by the Connecticut Wits at Yale ) ...
... style , ' as if it were a thing by itself . When a man , artist or whoever , has health , pride , acuteness , noble aspirations , he has the motive - elements of the grandest style . The rest is but manipu- lation ( yet that is no small ...
... style , in whatever it creates , merely perpetuates the noble style . " Yet the continuity of a nation's " noble style ” and an artist's will to sublimity was for Stevens , how- ever tenuous , a supreme good : " something in the mind of ...
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