Voyages of the self pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature
A short, brilliantly researched treatise on the what it means to be American, looking at America's paramount artists and writers, by acclaimed art historian Barbara Novak. Lavishly illustrated with color and black & white photos.
1 online resource ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.)
9780195345650, 0195345657
1256680708
1. Copley and Edwards: Self, Consciousness, and Thing ; 2. Emerson and Lane: Luminist Time and the Transcendental Aboriginal Self ; 3. Thoreau and the Indian Self: Circles, Silence and Democratic Land ; 4. Whitman and Church: Transcendant Optimism and the Democratic Self ; 5. Homer and James: The Pragmatic Self made Concrete ; 6. Dickinson and Ryder: Immortality, Eternity and the Reclusive Self ; 7. Pollock and Olson: Time, Space, and the Activated Bodily Self