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Transcribing the Territory; or, Rethinking Resistance

A Study in Classic American Fiction

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

Inspired by Martin Heidegger’s notion of being-in-the-world, this study presents a quasi-phenomenological close reading of Herman Melville’s most famous novella and Mark Twain’s most famous novel It is meant as a broad critique of both cultural and intellectual rhetoric of recalcitrance, estrangement and awayness that has long predominated within interpretations of American literature. The study refers selectively to the works of such classic authors as James F. Cooper, Washington Irving, R. W. Emerson, H. D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Robert Frost, James Joyce, and Donald Barthelme. As an extended intertextual footnote, advances also a more positive existential appreciation of the ostensibly forbidding landscape of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most famous romance .weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-631-63540-7 / 978-3631635407 / 9783631635407

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Erscheinungsdatum: 30.12.2011

Seiten: 281

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Janusz Semrau

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