Voyages of the self [electronic resource] : pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature / Barbara Novak.
By: Novak, Barbara.
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BookPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xii, 217 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.Subject(s): American literature -- History and criticism | Art and literature -- United States -- History | Painting, American | Self-perception in literature | Self-perception in artGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/357 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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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