Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American literature /

This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers - Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - have modernized and re-modeled Emerson's founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthu...

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Hoofdauteur: Herd, David
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
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  • Introduction: a short essay on enthusiasm
  • Sounding: Henry David Thoreau
  • Ranting: Herman Melville
  • Distributing: Ezra Pound
  • Presenting: Marianne Moore
  • Circulating: Frank O'Hara
  • Relishing: James Schuyler
  • Afterword: enthusiasm and audit.