Voyages of the self
Subtitle: pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature
By: Barbara Novak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Art and literature -- United States -- History; Painting, American; Self-perception in literature; Self-perception in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index
Table of contents: title: Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing; title: Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self; title: Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land; title: Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self; title: Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete; title: Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self; title: Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self