Voyages of the self : pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature /

Through reading paintings and texts from the same period against each other, the author shows how the meaning of self has influenced and changed through American identity and culture from the late 18th to the 20th century.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Novak, Barbara
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Sujets:
American literature > History and criticism.
Art and literature > United States > History.
Painting, American.
Self-perception in literature.
Self-perception in art.
Art et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Peinture américaine.
Perception de soi dans la littérature.
Perception de soi dans l'art.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Art and literature
Painting, American
Self-perception in art
Self-perception in literature
Selbstbild > Motiv
Kunst
Literatur > USA > Kunst.
Kunst > Literatur > USA.
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing
  • Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self
  • Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land
  • Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self
  • Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete
  • Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self
  • Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self.

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