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Narrating Discovery
Bruce Greenfield
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Beginning with British or colonial writers and moving on to early American narratives of explorers and antebellum novelists, this study traces the developing patterns of the American discovery narrative, a form of writing that chronicled the whole cultural perspective of the American frontier. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 249 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Explorers of the American frontier found more than just simple geographical locations, and their writings chronicle a whole cultural perspective on the West. The developing patterns of the American discovery narrative are the focus of "Narrating Discovery", a work of "new" literary history. Beginning with British or colonial writers Hearne, Mackenzie, and Henry and moving into the early American narratives of Lewis and Clark, Pike, and Fremont, Bruce Greenfield concludes with a reinterpretation of the American antebellum writers Irving, Cooper, Poe, and Thoreau. The author looks at the economic institutions that sponsored exploratory travel and at the rhetorical features of ... Read more
Explorers of the American frontier found more than just simple geographical locations, and their writings chronicle a whole cultural perspective on the West. The developing patterns of the American discovery narrative are the focus of "Narrating Discovery", a work of "new" literary history. Beginning with British or colonial writers Hearne, Mackenzie, and Henry and moving into the early American narratives of Lewis and Clark, Pike, and Fremont, Bruce Greenfield concludes with a reinterpretation of the American antebellum writers Irving, Cooper, Poe, and Thoreau. The author looks at the economic institutions that sponsored exploratory travel and at the rhetorical features of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
Series
The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S.
Number of Pages
249
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231079969
SKU
V9780231079969
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