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Autore |
Guthrie James R (James Robert) |
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Titolo |
Above time : Emerson's and Thoreau's temporal revolutions / / James R. Guthrie |
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Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2001 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Time in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-257) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Machine generated contents note: 1. A History of Time: Emerson and Lyell, Agassiz, -- and Darwin 6 -- 2. "My Camac" and Memnon's Head: Temporal Reform -- and Timely Memorials in A Week on the Concord and -- Merrimack Rivers 46 -- 3. Circles and Lines: Emerson's Parade of Days 92 -- 4. The Walking Stick, the Surveyor's Staff, and the Corn -- in the Night: Thoreau's Alternative Temporal Indices 131 -- 5. Answering the Sphinx: The Evolution of the Emersonian -- Metamorphosis 173 -- 6. Inches' Wood: Thoreau's Re-membered Cultural -- 7. Landscape 201 -- Extemporaneous Man, Representative Man 235 -- Works Cited 253 -- Index 259. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Above Time, James R. Guthrie explores the origins of the two preeminent transcendentalists' revolutionary approaches to time, as well as to the related concepts of history, memory, and change. Most critical discussions of this period neglect the important truth that the entire American transcendentalist project involved a transcendence of temporality as well as of materiality. Correspondingly, both writers call in their major works for temporal reform, to be achieved primarily by rejecting the past and future in order to live in an amplified present moment. |
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