Title The American ideal : literary history as a worldly activity / Peter Carafiol

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (212 pages) Contents The problem of American literary scholarship -- Reading the tradition: the rhetoric of transcendentalist scholarship -- Time and textuality: Between metaphor and metaphysics: reading Emerson as "onward thinking" ; Writing in/as history: Thoreau's Week -- American literary scholarship for the twentieth century Summary This monograph argues that the institution of American literary scholarship enshrines a reactionary view of history and narrative and an unrealistic view of America itself. The author also examines contemporary debates about the methods and status of literary history in general Analysis Literature History United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-205) and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc National characteristics, American, in literature. Criticism -- United States -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Amerikaans. Literatuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap) United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 1423764439 9781423764434 1601298056 9781601298058 1280440775 9781280440779

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