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 enthusiast, sho...
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Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
2007.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.