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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013
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| Édition: | First edition. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : arriving at quiet
- Emerson : testimony without representation
- Douglass : testimony without identity
- Melville : testimony without voice
- James : testimony without life
- Conclusion : staying quiet.