Paryz The Postcolonial and Imperial Experience in American Transcendentalism

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-01218-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paryz, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Mapping the Field PART I: RALPH WALDO EMERSON: THE DOUBLE FIGURATION Figures of Dependence: Exploring the Postcolonial in Emerson's Selected Texts Beyond the Traveler's Testimony: English Traits and the Construction of Postcolonial Counter-Discourse Emerson, New England, and the Rhetoric of Expansion PART II: HENRY DAVID THOREAU: THE IMPERIAL IMAGINARY Thoreau's Imperial Fantasy: Walden versus Robinson Crusoe The Politics of the Genre: Exploration and Ethnography in The Maine Woods PART III: WALT WHITMAN: THE NATIONAL TRAJECTORY Postcolonial Whitman: The Poet and the Nation in the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass Passage to (More Than) India: The Poetics and Politics of Whitman's Textualization of the Orient Conclusion: Representative Men

Über Autor(innen)

MAREK PARYZ Associate Professor and Chair of the Section of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and editor of the Polish Journal for American Studies.