Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America /

"Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American Transcendentalists"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kohler, Michelle, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Temas:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Transcendentalism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Figures of speech.
Polarity in literature.
American literature > New England > History and criticism > 19th century.
Transcendentalism (New England)
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Transcendantalisme dans la littérature.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Contraires dans la littérature.
Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine)
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Literature and society.
Literatur
Transzendentalismus
Sehen > Motiv
Realismus
New England.
United States.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the stare that signalizes
  • Emerson, transcendentalism, and the problem of literary vision
  • Doomed to be a witness: the authority of ineluctable vision in Douglass's slave narratives
  • Dim optics: privacy, access, and the reluctant seer in Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables
  • Scarce opon my eyes: fleeting visions and the epistemology of metaphor in Dickinson's poetry
  • To arrange a perspective: Howells, Jewett, and the provoked eye of realism
  • Conclusion.

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