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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... things , night and day , summer and winter , spring and autumne , the dayly pro- viding for all this great household upon the Earth , the preserving and directing of All to its proper end . The consideration of these things would with ...
... things , the superbly beautiful and moving things , are those that he wrote naturally , with an extemporaneous and irre- pressible vehemence of emotion . -Wallace Stevens Whitman's " Vast Egotism " : " One Vast Democracy " AS A SONG of ...
... things of nature has been detechnologized , abol- ished in the aletheia of a scientific enframing which rules in the Western episteme as calculus of efficiency and force . The techno- cratic mentality has enframed a nature of lost ...
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