List - The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing

Klappentext Lists serve a variety of functions in Emerson's essays! Whitman's poems! Melville's novels! and Thoreau's memoirs. Belknap discusses the surprising variety of pattern! intention! scope! art! and even philosophy. Zusammenfassung A literary critic lovingly explores the ancient practice of list- making in literature! examining literary lists and the wide range of ways writers use them. From Sumerian account tablets and Homer's catalogue of ships to Tom Sawyer's earnings from his fence-painting scheme. Focuses on lists of four American Renaissance authors.

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• Authors: Robert Belknap, Robert E. Belknap, Robert E. (Instructor of English Belknap, Robert Forbes Belknap, Belknap Robert E., Hugh Donald Forbes
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2004
• EAN: 9780300103830
• ISBN: 978-0-300-10383-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general