Episodic Poetics : Politics and Literary Form After the Constitution
Garrett, MatthewAuthor
The early United States was a culture of the episode. In this book, Matthew Garrett merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The early United States was a culture of the episode. In this book, Matthew Garrett merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 17, 2014).
Introduction: Reading the episode in the early republic -- 1. The poetics of constitutional consolidation -- 2. The life in episodes -- 3. The fiction of hesitation -- 4. Miscellany and the structure of style.
American literature
Literature and society
Narration (Rhetoric)
Literary form
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature