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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... tradition - does this " American sublime " begin ? Scholarship of our era has nominated a contradic- tory list of scrappy grandeurs heading in a centrist direction - that is , towards and away from the self - reliant sublimity of ...
... tradition — the " other tradition " of her beloved Du Bartas and , later , of John Milton - to achieve some version of an original voice . Worshipping the poetic sublime , Bradstreet says something from New England by which to ...
... tradition " evading tradition- centered anxiety . See Marjorie Perloff on this American will to stylis- tic innovation and a perpetual revolution of form / self : " No More Margins ' : John Cage , David Antin , and the Poetry of ...
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