Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American literature /

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This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers - Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - have modernized and re-modeled Emerson's founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herd, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Enthusiasm in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literature and literary studies.
Enthousiasme dans la litterature.
American literature > History and criticism.
Essais.
Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
essays.
Essay
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a short essay on enthusiasm
  • Sounding: Henry David Thoreau
  • Ranting: Herman Melville
  • Distributing: Ezra Pound
  • Presenting: Marianne Moore
  • Circulating: Frank O'Hara
  • Relishing: James Schuyler
  • Afterword: enthusiasm and audit.

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