Transcendental wordplay : America's romantic punsters and the search for the language of nature /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: West, Michael, 1937-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2000.
Temas:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Knowledge > Language and languages.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Et les mots d'esprit et les jeux de mots.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862.
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Puns and punning in literature.
American wit and humor > History and criticism.
English language > United States > Rhetoric.
English language > 19th century > Rhetoric.
Transcendentalism (New England)
Romanticism > United States.
Nature in literature.
Plays on words.
Puns and punning.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Mots d'esprit et jeux de mots dans la littérature.
Humour américain > Histoire et critique.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Rhétorique.
Anglais (Langue) > 19e siècle > Rhétorique.
Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine)
Romantisme > États-Unis.
Nature dans la littérature.
Mots d'esprit et jeux de mots.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
American literature.
American wit and humor.
English language > Rhetoric.
Language and languages.
Romanticism.
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Spellers, punsters, and spread-eagle linguistics
  • Enlightened Europeans, romantic Americans: origins of our transcendental quest for the language of nature
  • Parsing the language of nature
  • Antebellum America goes gaga over grammar
  • Copyrighting etymological ecstasy
  • Thoreau and the life of words
  • The ironic drift in Antebellum language philosophy
  • Go slow: man thinking
  • Wordplay, romantic irony, and the forms of Antebellum fiction
  • Savoring the wiles of words
  • Whitman's experiments with language
  • Thoreau and the sounds of silence
  • Walden's antic dialectic between self and society
  • Scatology and eschatology: the heroic dimensions of Thoreau's wordplay.

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