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Episodic Poetics : Politics and Literary Form After the Constitution
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garrett, Matthew, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism--1783-1850--United States.
- American literature.
- Literature and society--History--18th century.
- Literature and society.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Literary form.
- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- Episodic poetics
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The early United States was a culture of the episode. In this book, Matthew Garrett merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Reading the episode in the early republic
- 1. The poetics of constitutional consolidation
- 2. The life in episodes
- 3. The fiction of hesitation
- 4. Miscellany and the structure of style.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 17, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780199346554 (ebook) :
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