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American Renaissance : Art ...
Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works
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monografia Rebiun26564931 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun26564931 m o d cr un|---uuuuu 121012s1968 xx o 000 0 eng d 1111015885 1125430470 1280605057 9781280605055 9780199726882 ebk.) 0199726884 9786610605057 661060505X 9780195007596 IDEBK eng pn IDEBK OCLCQ EBLCP YDXCP OCLCQ MERUC AU@ OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCF DCT SFB OCLCQ VLY UKAHL n-us--- CSB bicssc American Renaissance Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman Oxford University Press, USA 1968 Oxford University Press, USA 1 online resource 1 online resource Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Oxford University Press paperback BOOK ONE: FROM EMERSON TO THOREAU -- I. IN THE OPTATIVE MOOD -- 1. Consciousness -- 2. Eloquence -- 3. Expression -- 4. The Word One with the Thing -- 5. 'The light of the body is the eye' -- 6. A Few Herbs and Apples -- 7. The Flowing -- 8. Self-Portrait of Saadi -- II. THE ACTUAL GLORY -- 1. Expected Unexpectedness -- 2. What Music Shall We Have? -- 3. Thinking in Images -- III. THE METAPHYSICAL STRAIN -- 1. Man Thinking -- 2. The Mingling of Walden and Ganges -- 3. Ishmael's Loom of Time -- IV. THE ORGANIC PRINCIPLE -- 1. From Coleridge to Emerson -- 2. Horatio Greenough 3. Thoreau -- 4. New England Landscapes -- 5. Walden: Craftsmanship vs. Technique -- BOOK TWO: HAWTHORNE -- V. THE VISION OF EVIL -- VI. PROBLEM OF THE ARTIST AS NEW ENGLANDER -- 1. Starting Point -- 2. The First Tales -- 3. 'To open an intercourse with the world' -- 4. The Haunted Mind -- VII. ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM -- Theory -- 1. The American Bias and Background -- 2. The Imagination as Mirror -- 3. The Crucial Definition of Romance -- Practice -- 1. The Scarlet Letter -- 2. From 'Young Goodman Brown' to 'The Whiteness of the Whale' -- 3. Hawthorne and James -- 4. Hawthorne and Milton -- Coda VIII. A DARK NECESSITY -- 1. Hawthorne's Politics, with the Economic Structure of The Seven Gables -- 2. Hawthorne's Psychology: The Acceptance of Good and Evil -- 3. From Hawthorne to James to Eliot -- BOOK THREE: MELVILLE -- IX. MOMENT OF TRANSITION -- 1. 'Out of unhandselled savage nature' -- 2. Mardi: A Source-Book for Plenitude -- 3. Autobiography and Art -- X. THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY -- 1. The Economic Factor -- 2. 'The world's a ship on its passage out' -- 3. Structure -- 4. 'A bold and nervous lofty language' -- 5. The Matching of the Forces -- 6. The Fate of the Ungodly God-like Man 7. The Levels Beyond -- XI. THE TROUBLED MIND -- XII. REASSERTION OF THE HEART -- 1. An Alien to His Contemporaries -- 2. Billy Budd, Foretopman -- BOOK FOUR: WHITMAN -- XIII. ONLY A LANGUAGE EXPERIMENT -- 1. 'Words! book-words! what are you?' -- 2. Vision and Attitude -- 3. Three Analogies for a Poem -- 4. 'Rhythm in its last ruggedness and decomposition' -- 5. 'Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden' -- XIV. MAN IN THE OPEN AIR -- 1. The Need for Mythology -- 2. Representative Men -- 3. American Demigods -- 4. Full Circle -- CHRONOLOGY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G. H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works American literature- 19th century- History and criticism American literature Intellectual life Estados Unidos- Intellectual life- 19th century Estados Unidos Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Matthiessen, F.O. Print version Matthiessen, F.O. American renaissance : art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman. London : Oxford University Press, ©1941 (StDnUD)93575