Enthusiast! : essays on modern American literature

Enthusiast! essays on modern American literature

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 enthusiast, sho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Herd, David, author (author), Herd, David, contributor (contributor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press 2007.
Materias:
Enthusiasm in literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
Literature
Literature: History & Criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Literature: history & criticism
American literature.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427381306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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