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

By: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: xii, 217 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195305906 (acidfree paper)
  • 9780195305906 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/357 22
LOC classification:
  • PS169.A88 N68 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.

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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