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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 695–726.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Matthew Cordova Frankel Duke University Press 2002 Matthew ‘‘Nature’s Nation’’ Revisited: Citizenship and the
Cordova Sublime in Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the
Frankel State of Virginia
Thus, superficial appearances to the contrary, America...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 623–652.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and complicated mark on African American literature relating to the sublime properties of his musical aesthetic than has previously been recognized. As a point of departure, I apply Michael J. Shapiro’s definition of the racial sublime as a confrontation with the “still vast oppressive structure that imperils...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 61–90.
Published: 01 March 2003
...David A. Zimmerman Duke University Press 2003 David A. Frank Norris, Market Panic,
Zimmerman and the Mesmeric Sublime
6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 65 of 252 As the oracle gave place to the astrologer...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press; Cranbury,
N.J.: Associated Univ. Presses. 2002. 223 pp. $42.50.
Sublime Desire: History and Post–1960s Fiction. By Amy J. Elias. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Univ. Press. 2001...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 501–526.
Published: 01 September 2008
... politics of visual spectatorship, the essay analyzes Cliff's novel Free Enterprise (1993); the central scene is an unveiling of this painting. Destabilizing Ruskin's reading of the painting's sublimity and asking what it means to “take pleasure in looking at images of terror,” Cliff's novel inserts a black...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 485–511.
Published: 01 September 2020
...: confronted with an anthropogenic landscape that is both destroyed and made sublime by the structures of capitalism, individual viewers both feel powerless in the face of the force it represents and feel themselves implicated in its creation, despite different levels of responsibility. References...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 361–390.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., as awesome so as to justify its ecological and social violence and, subsequently, as banal so as to render it invisible within the settler state. Oscillating between awe and irritation, the sublime and the stuplime, then, these texts both expose the rhythm of infrastructure’s long—that is, low—relation...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., is no stranger to the
nineteenth-century home. Of course, domestic activities such as din-
ing, decorating, visiting, and dancing have not only economic but also
aesthetic components. Like works of art and natural embodiments of
the beautiful and the sublime, everyday artifacts and activities can
become...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 549–577.
Published: 01 September 2004
... introduction—a reflection on their friend-
ship—King moved from the broadly historical to the elevation of the
local, to the autobiographical, and finally to the sublime image of
the ‘‘promised land Relying throughout on chiasmus, he brings the
mythicintorelationwiththefamiliaratthesametimethatheelevates...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 47–83.
Published: 01 March 2001
... is
more accurately characterized as post-Kantian, the philosophical basis
for which was absorbed largely through English romantic thought.34
Moreover, Emerson’s concept corresponds to Kant’s notion not of the
beautiful but of the sublime, which Kant himself all but dismisses for
its excessive idealism...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 209–212.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the architectural uncanny and the urban sublime, the skyline of “New York vertical” and the streetscape of “New York horizontal,” and Millichap employs 1930s documentary realism and “subjective modernism.” Perusing these extensive, broad-ranging surveys, readers almost forget that necessarily selective surveys...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... In a similar way, Lowe draws on connected themes and concepts throughout the book, which could even be deepened at times, bringing cohesion to his exploration of various cultures and texts. The “tropical sublime,” or a “sense of the sublime [that] has been conjoined and/or expressed through the tropical” (33...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 678–686.
Published: 01 September 2019
... to examine, to critique, and to explore the tensions facing America.” Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime . By James Maynard. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2018. xviii, 211 pp. Cloth, $65.00. The term “pragmatist sublime” refers to the sublime as pluralistic and relational. Duncan...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 521–552.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... They were to remain (at least in the national
imagination) what Mark Twain called (in a barely sublimated mili-
tary metaphor) ‘‘the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any
ocean 6...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 353–379.
Published: 01 June 2012
...
fearfully exploitative relationship to the natural world, the Romantic
ideal of “knowing ourselves” as “parts and proportions of one won-
drous whole” works toward “the sublim[ityand thus the con-
tinued exaltation—“of man.”6
The same charge can be made against many US...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 211–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
...). The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson . By Laura E. Tanner. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2021. viii, 195 pp. Cloth, $80.00; e-book available. Seeking to “reverse [ . . . ] the motion toward sublimity” that many critics read and analyze in the fiction of Marilynne Robinson, this study...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 230–234.
Published: 01 March 2019
...” and concludes with “Puritan afterlives.” Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition . Ed. Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph M. Rosen. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2018. x, 292 pp. Cloth, $79.95; e-book, $19.95. This anthology meditates on the influence of the classical tradition on the Beats...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 839–841.
Published: 01 December 2014
... constructed to be usable. He shows
how the regional culture of the Hudson River Valley coalesced to serve an
emergent American nationalism that defined itself by preserving sublime
landscapes and memorializing the founding moment in public memory. The
Hudson River Valley was home to many...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2013
... or “die
in the attempt,” but for Listwell (182, 178). Drawing on conversion as a
principal trope, Douglass had tapped US audiences’ fascination for and
identification with the sublime. This fascination manifested itself in
religious and secular discourse, and Douglass took advantage of both...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 255–282.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of thinking, allowing us access to a version of the temporal sublime that goes beyond any Grecian urn, ruined monastery, or shattered colossus in the desert—and, like the Romantics’ use of the sublime, the assertion of the Anthropocene seeks to re-inject an appreciation for the sacredness of life into a world...
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