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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... Vast Egotism " : " One Vast Democracy " AS A SONG of " vast egotism " in which the " poetic idea ” of continental America as well as the " antipoetic " materiality of daily life could , to invoke Tocqueville's terms , be envisioned as ...
... vast ontological ground . Only the retreat into moral idea ( Kant ) or into the will to abstraction and the euphorics of self - power ( Scho- penhauer , Nietzsche ) could rescue this " self " from affective - if not semiotic ...
... vast . " 9 " More vast " in ways that other awe - struck egos ( " mickey - mockers " ) could ap- prove of or , as models / rivals , emulate and outdo . As the latter - day French theorist of the American sublime as spectacular power ...
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