Novak, Barbara.

Voyages of the self pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature / [electronic resource] : Barbara Novak. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xii, 217 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.

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.


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American literature--History and criticism.
Art and literature--History.--United States
Painting, American.
Self-perception in literature.
Self-perception in art.


Electronic books.

PS169.A88 / N68 2007eb

810.9/357