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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... whole people . " 30 This " philosophical method common to the whole people , " which came to fruition in the discourse of transcendental idealism ( Emerson ) and the cash - value pragmatism of William James , assumed as one of its ...
... whole subjects and peoples missing from what Tracy Chapman calls " the dream of America . " As a discourse of the ... whole work , the whole utterance . " 20 Such poetic genres develop as dialogical responses ( " whole utterances ...
... whole continent with blackness " in " Syringa , " from the interiorized world of Houseboat Days ( 1977 ) : Orpheus like the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky . . . . The singer [ Ashbery / Orpheus ] thinks ...
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