Tony Tanner

The Reign of Wonder

Naivety and Reality in American Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dr Tanner investigates American literature with regards to wonder and cultivated naivety.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780521291989
• ISBN-10: 0521291984
• Artikelnr.: 29425077

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: the sleep of reason
Part I. The Transcendentalists: 1. Saints behold: the transcendentalist point of view
2. Emerson: the unconquered eye and the enchanted circle
3. Thoreau and the sauntering eye
4. Walt Whitman's ecstatic first step
Part II. Mark Twain: 6. The doctors of the wilderness
7. A system of reduction
8. The voice of the outlaw
9. The pond of youth
10. Huck Finn and the reflections of a saphead
Part III. The Twentieth Century: 11. Gertrude Stein and the complete actual present
12. Sherwood Anderson's Little Things
13. Ernest Hemingway's Unhurried Sensations
Part IV. Henry James: 14. The candid outsider
15. The range of wonderment
16. The subjective adventure
Afterword: wonder and alienation - the mystic and the moviegoer
References
Index.