Author: Samuel White PattersonPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Spirit of the American Revolution
Author: Samuel White PattersonPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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American Puritan Imagination
Author: Sacvan BercovitchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521098410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Over the last two decades a major revaluation has been taking place of the colonial Puritan imagination. With the growth of interest in early American literature has come increasing recognition of its quality and a better understanding of its place in the continuity of American culture. However, much of the best critical work to date has been published as articles in scholarly journals, and in bringing together for the first time the best work in this growing field the present anthology fills a number of important needs. It is at once a valuabale and accessible introduction for students, a summing-up of a new enterprise, and a guide for further studies.
The American Puritan Elegy
Author: Jeffrey A. HammondPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139429779
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Jeffrey Hammond's study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to a specific process of mourning defined by Puritan views on death and grief. The elegies emerge, he argues not as 'poems' to be read and appreciated in a post-romantic sense, but as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience of loss in accordance with theological expectation. Read in the framework of their own time and place, the elegies shed light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture. Hammond's book reassesses a body of poems whose importance on their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. It represents the first full-length study of its kind in English.
A List of Books and Articles, Chiefly Bibliographical, Designed to Serve as an Introduction to the Bibliography and Methods of English Literary History (with an Index).
Author: Tom Peete CrossPublisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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A List of Books and Articles
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Bulletin ...
Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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History of American Literature
Author: Reuben Post HalleckPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This volume describes the greatest achievements in American literature, from the earliest times to the present. Special attention has been paid to the individual works of great authors, but also to literary movements, ideals, and animating principles, and the relation of all these to English literature. The author hopes this book will inspire students to investigate for themselves the remarkable American record of spirituality, initiative, and democratic accomplishment contained in our national literature.
A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day
Author: George SaintsburyPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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