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Quiet Testimony : A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature /
The nineteenth century may have been the age of "our talking America," as Emerson put it, but it was also a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. This book finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encount...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : arriving at quiet -- Emerson : testimony without representation -- Douglass : testimony without identity -- Melville : testimony without voice -- James : testimony without life -- Conclusion : staying quiet. | |
| 520 | |a The nineteenth century may have been the age of "our talking America," as Emerson put it, but it was also a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. This book finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Henry James - work to open up the domain of the witness and the obliging text by articulating quietude's claim on the clamouring world. | ||
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