The American Sublime - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887061907 ISBN 13: 9780887061905

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

American poetics has been radicalized in recent years by revisionist theories which replay and ground poets against their Romantic precursors. Beginning with the sublime politics of Emerson and ending with women poets who renounce the authority of gender, The American Sublime represents the various modes of recent critical thinking.

This collection of essays takes up the mapping of the American sublime begun by Harold Bloo. Prefaced by an introduction that traces the sublime from its origins in Longinus through Kant, Freud and Bloom, the essays focus on central American poetic scenes. These include the transparency of Emerson's vision of the sublime, Whitman's passage to India, Dickinson's corridors of the soul, and Stevens' contemplation of death in the auroras.

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Mary Arensberg is Lecturer in English at The State University of New York at Albany.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0887061907
• ISBN 13: 9780887061905
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
• Herausgeber: Arensber Mary
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