| American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre Contributor(s): Wilson, Rob (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299127745 ISBN-13: 9780299127749 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $18.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1991 Annotation: As a poetic genre, the American sublime helped to produce the subject and site of American subjection as sublime. At least that will be one of my overall claims. Yet how does one stand, within a poststructural context of deconstruction and disbelief, to behold 'The American Sublime' as a communal construct of self and national empowerment that may never have been there except as a function of those vulgarly American contexts and beliefs? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.009 |
| LCCN: 90-50654 |
| Series: Wisconsin Project on American Writers |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.02" (1.06 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, the author demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He adopts an historical approach to the subject. |
