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Literary transcendentalism : style and vision in the American Renaissance /
Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1973.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Background and general principles: The emergence of the transcendentalist aesthetic from American unitarianism
- Transcendentalist literary method: inspiration versus craftmanship
- pt. 2. The living word: From conversation to essay
- From sermon to scripture
- pt. 3. Word and world: nature as a model for literary form: Emerson and the idea of microcosmic form
- Catalogue rhetoric
- Thoreau and the literary excursion
- Thoreau's A week
- Ellery Channing: the major phase of a minor poet
- pt. 4. The first person: Transcendentalist self-examination and autobiographical tradition
- Emerson and Thoreau: soul versus self
- Transcendental egoism in Very and Whitman.