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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... tone of praise and a sense , more materially speaking , of symbolic self- empowerment where the ego fits in a scene of its own self- constituted unity . The sublime , as Bradstreet early glimpsed , might have cash - value consequences ...
... tone and style , resulting in a curiously hybrid mixture that speaks beyond its sophomoric production of an Amer- ican sublimity that will emerge rife with genteel contradictions , promoting and evoking both landed stability and social ...
... tone remains one of " rapt'rous homage , " linking the contemplation of nature to affirmations of " nature's God . " His is a stance not of natural subjugation but of awe - struck moralizing ( transport ) that moves the poet to epithet ...
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