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Voyages of the self : pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature / Barbara Novak.
Van Pelt Library PS169.A88 N68 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Novak, Barbara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Art and literature--United States--History.
- Art and literature.
- Painting, American.
- Self-perception in literature.
- Self-perception in art.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 217 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- One of America's premier art historians completes the trilogy begun with the two earlier works, offering once again an exhilarating exploration of American art and culture. Wonderfully illustrated with dozens of black-and-white pictures and 16 full-color plates, here is a stunning work that yields a wealth of insight into American art and culture.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195305906
- OCLC:
- 70045777
- Publisher Number:
- 9780195305906
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