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Boasian verse : the poetic and ethnographic work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead / Philipp Schweighauser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schweighauser, Philipp, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sapir, Edward.
- Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948--Criticism and interpretation.
- Benedict, Ruth.
- Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978--Criticism and interpretation.
- Mead, Margaret.
- Anthropologists' writings, American--History and criticism.
- Anthropologists' writings, American.
- Anthropology in literature.
- Ethnology in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 182 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Poetic and ethnographic work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Philipp Schweighauser is Professor of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He received his PhD in Anglophone Literary Studies from the same university. After a research stay at the University of California, Irvine (2000-2001), a postdoc position at the University of Berne (2003-2007), and an assistant professorship at the University of Gt̲tingen (2007-2009), he returned to the University of Basel in 2009. From 2012 to 2020, Schweighauser served as the president of the Swiss Association for North American Studies. He is the co-editor of eight edited volumes or special issues and the author of two monographs: Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art (U of Virginia P, 2016) and The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics (UP Florida, 2006).
- Contents:
- Soothing blindness, piercing insight: Ruth Benedict's verse
- Margaret Mead: how to make it new, differently
- Exerting poetic license: Edward Sapir's poetry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 18, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Schweighauser, Philipp. Boasian verse
- ISBN:
- 9781003266945
- 1003266940
- 9781000784169
- 1000784169
- 9781000784121
- 1000784126
- Publisher Number:
- 40031421912
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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