UID:
almafu_9959235306602883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 518 p. )
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ill. ;
ISBN:
0-8214-4053-5
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Spellers, punsters, and spread-eagle linguistics -- Enlightened Europeans, romantic Americans: origins of our transcendental quest for the language of nature -- Parsing the language of nature -- Antebellum America goes gaga over grammar -- Copyrighting etymological ecstasy -- Thoreau and the life of words -- The ironic drift in Antebellum language philosophy -- Go slow: man thinking -- Wordplay, romantic irony, and the forms of Antebellum fiction -- Savoring the wiles of words -- Whitman's experiments with language -- Thoreau and the sounds of silence -- Walden's antic dialectic between self and society -- Scatology and eschatology: the heroic dimensions of Thoreau's wordplay.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8214-1324-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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