 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
THE LIFE AND UNDEATH OF AUTONOMY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
|
| By: |
Geoff Hamilton |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£20.95 |
|
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source
it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0813935296 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813935294 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 December, 2013 |
| Series: |
American Literatures Initiative |
| Pages: |
168 |
| Synopsis: |
In The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature, Geoff Hamilton charts the evolution of the fundamental concept of autonomy in the American imaginary across the span of the nation's literary history. Whereas America's ideological roots are typically examined in relation to Enlightenment Europe, this book traces the American literary representation of autonomy back to its pastoral, political, and ultimately religious origins in ancient Greek thought. Tracking autonomy's evolution in America from the Declaration of Independence to contemporary works, Hamilton considers affinities between American and Greek literary characters--Natty Bumppo and Odysseus, Emerson's "poet" and Socrates, Cormac McCarthy's Judge Holden and Callicles--and reveals both what American literary history has in common with that of ancient Greece and what is distinctively its own.The author argues for the link with antiquity not only to understand better the boundaries between self and society but also to show profound transitions in the understanding of autonomy from a nourishing liberty of fulfilment, through an aggressive agency destructive to both human and natural worlds, to a sterile isolation and detachment. The result is an insightful analysis of the history of individualism, the evolution of frontier mythology and American Romanticism, and the contemporary representation of social alienation and violent criminality. |
| US Grade: |
College Graduate Student and over |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
|
|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
|
|
|
|