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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Novak, Barbara
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Art and literature > United States > History.
Painting, American.
Self-perception in literature.
Self-perception in art.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.