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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Literary Sketches
Author: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature
Author: Lydia G. FashPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394399X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.
Book of Sketches
Author: Jack KerouacPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440626499
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.
Literary Sketches
Author: Henry S. SaltPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Literary Sketches
Author: Henry Stephens SaltPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020378478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A treat for lovers of English literature, this collection of literary sketches offers unique insights into the lives of some of the most celebrated writers of the time. Henry Stephens Salt's engaging writing style and encyclopedic knowledge of literature make this a must-have book for any serious student of English literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Bibliophile Library of Literature, Art and Rare Manuscripts
Author: Forrest MorganPublisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Literary Sketches (Classic Reprint)
Author: Henry Stephens SaltPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282862190
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Excerpt from Literary Sketches I know not the internal constitution of other men, not even thine, whom I now address. I see that in some external attributes they resemble me; but when, misled by that appearance, I have thought to appeal to something in common, and unburthen my inmost soul to them, I have found my language misunderstood, like one in a distant and savage land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Literary Sketches
Author: Essays on literature. Essays on nature. Juvenilia. College papers. Scientific papers. Sketches. Stevenson's companion to the cook book. Stevenson at play
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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