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Record Nr.

UNINA9910219866803321

Autore

Herd David

Titolo

Enthusiast! : essays on modern American literature / / David Herd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK ; ; New York : , : Manchester University Press

New York : , : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-5261-2511-0

0-7190-9584-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 pages)

Disciplina

810.9

Soggetti

Enthusiasm in literature

American literature - History and criticism

Literature

Literature: History & Criticism

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General

Literature: history & criticism

American literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circulation of literature. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on. Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on each of Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O’



Hara, and Schuyler. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. Lucidly written and combatively argued, the book will appeal to readers of American Literature or Modern Poetry, and to all those interested in the circulation of literary work.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826873503321

Titolo

Breaking boundaries : varieties of liminality / / edited by Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen, and Harald Wydra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-767-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.) : illustrations

Disciplina

302.1

302/.1

Soggetti

Liminality

Rites and ceremonies

Philosophical anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety



of concrete social and political problems.