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List - The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing

English · Hardback

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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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