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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... textual- ity ) . Sublimity accrues through the private production of an abyss ( " vacant space " ) or delusion of textual displacement ( " empty spirit " ) out of which selfhood can emerge to inaugurate claims of strong interpretation ...
... textual slogan of this " Feminist Bradstreet " emerging in the 1980s , as in Martin , becomes " In better dress to trim thee was my mind , / But nought save home - spun Cloth , in the house I find " ) and , as a Calvinist , hyper ...
... textual sublime " emerges from variously de- constructive readings in The Textual Sublime : Deconstruction and Its Differences , ed . Hugh J. Silverman and Gary E. Aylesworth ( Albany : State Univ . of New York Press , 1990 ) : xii . 2 ...
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