First thoughts; or, Beginning to think [by] a literary association
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Page : 130 pages
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Author : First thoughts
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Page : 130 pages
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Page : 574 pages
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Page : 472 pages
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Category : Women
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Page : 986 pages
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Category : American literature
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Page : 134 pages
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Category : Readers (Elementary)
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Author : D. Appleton and Company
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Page : 418 pages
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Author : Michael West
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 546 pages
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Release : 2000
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0821413244
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of "etymology." New England Transcendentalism was only one outcropping of a nationwide movement in which schoolmasters across small-town America taught students the roots of words in ways that dramatized religious issues and sparked wordplay. Shaped by this ferment, our major romantic authors shared the sensibility that Friedrich Schlegel linked to punning and christened "romantic irony." Notable punsters or etymologists all, they gleefully set up as sages, creating jocular masterpieces from their zest for oracular wordplay. Their search for a primal language lurking beneath all natural languages provided them with something like a secret language that encodes their meanings. To fathom their essentially comic masterpieces we must decipher it. Interpreting Thoreau as an ironic moralist, satirist, and social critic rather than a nature-loving mystic, Transcendental Wordplay suggests that the major American Romantics shared a surprising conservatism. In this award-winning study, Professor West rescues the pun from critical contempt and allows readers to enjoy it as a serious form of American humor.
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