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Transcendental wordplay : America's romantic punsters and the search for the language of nature
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Transcendental wordplay : America's romantic punsters and the search for the language of nature

Author: Michael West
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Henry David Thoreau; Henry David Thoreau
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael West
ISBN: 0821413244 9780821413241
OCLC Number: 43334158
Description: xxiv, 518 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Spellers, punsters, and spread-eagle linguistics -- Enlightened Europeans, romantic Americans: origins of our transcendental quest for the language of nature -- Parsing the language of nature -- Antebellum America goes gaga over grammar -- Copyrighting etymological ecstasy -- Thoreau and the life of words -- The ironic drift in Antebellum language philosophy -- Go slow: man thinking -- Wordplay, romantic irony, and the forms of Antebellum fiction -- Savoring the wiles of words -- Whitman's experiments with language -- Thoreau and the sounds of silence -- Walden's antic dialectic between self and society -- Scatology and eschatology: the heroic dimensions of Thoreau's wordplay.
Responsibility: Michael West.

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