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Transcendental wordplay : America's romantic punsters and the search for the language of nature
- Title
- Transcendental wordplay : America's romantic punsters and the search for the language of nature / Michael West.
- Author
- West, Michael, 1937-
- Publication
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2000.
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 518 p. : facsims.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Puns and punning in literature
- American wit and humor > History and criticism
- English language > United States > Rhetoric
- English language > 19th century > Rhetoric
- Transcendentalism (New England)
- Romanticism > United States
- Nature in literature
- Plays on words
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-506) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-10725
- ISBN
- 0821413244 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 99089320
- OCLC
- 43334158
- Author
- West, Michael, 1937-
- Title
- Transcendental wordplay : America's romantic punsters and the search for the language of nature / Michael West.
- Imprint
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-506) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-10725