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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... voice and an Amer- ican stricturing of the high style - Oppen called his own " Objectiv- ist " language " a going / down middle voice " -that turns away from lofty terms and sweeping predications . Poetry becomes that obsolete genre ...
... voice be- comes marked with anxious transgression exactly as it is lifting into rapture . As an early and even oxymoronic incarnation of such a Chris- tianized sublime , Bradstreet is both blasted to mute admiration by the grandeur of ...
... voice to use the " home - spun Cloth " of lesser modes of lyric / domestic production . Needless to say , these quotidian lyrics are deft and local , such as those love poems to her Christ - like absent husband or ones keeping track of ...
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