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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... transcendence , a surpassing of conventions or reason- able limits , an attempt to come to terms with the unimaginable . The moment of the sublime was a transport of spirit , and at such a moment the visible object was eclipsed or ...
... transcendence ( as language ) , the surpassing of outmoded " poetic " habits of form , as the Du Bartas- dwarfed moves of Bradstreet and the Wordsworthian manners of Bryant had attested . Undaunted , like Nietzsche or Emerson , Whit ...
... transcendence ( or public commu- nion ) : " What wine does one drink ? / What bread does one eat ? " How does one stand to behold the sublime , in an age of mockery , conformity , plainness , and wholesale diminishment , an age in which ...
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