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Endless experiments; essays on the heroic experience in American romanticism
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Endless experiments; essays on the heroic experience in American romanticism.
ISBN
0814201806
Published
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [1973]
Physical Description
xi, 277 p. 24 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction: Emerson: endless experimenter
Walden: the equivalent response
Whitman: the paradox of cosmic selfhood
Ishmael: the hero in flux
The apocalyptic imagination of A. Gordon Pym
Paterson: the poet as tragic hero
Epilogue: Wallace Stevens: the hero in an age of disbelief.
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