A Library in America, 1758-1858
Author : Anita Schorsch
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Books and reading
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Author : Anita Schorsch
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Books and reading
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Author : Donald G. Davis
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
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Author : Sarah Rivett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0190492570
In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had "discovered all of the secrets of the most beautiful languages in the universe." Unscripted America is a study of how colonists in North America struggled to understand, translate, and interpret Native American languages, and the significance of these languages for theological and cosmological issues such as the origins of Amerindian populations, their relationship to Eurasian and Biblical peoples, and the origins of language itself. Through a close analysis of previously overlooked texts, Unscripted America places American Indian languages within transatlantic intellectual history, while also demonstrating how American letters emerged in the 1810s through 1830s via a complex and hitherto unexplored engagement with the legacies and aesthetic possibilities of indigenous words. Unscripted America contends that what scholars have more traditionally understood through the Romantic ideology of the noble savage, a vessel of antiquity among dying populations, was in fact a palimpsest of still-living indigenous populations whose presence in American literature remains traceable through words. By examining the foundation of the literary nation through language, writing, and literacy, Unscripted America revisits common conceptions regarding "early america" and its origins to demonstrate how the understanding of America developed out of a steadfast connection to American Indians, both past and present.
Author : George Thomas Watkins
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
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ISBN : 9781354272992
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Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2006
Category : British literature
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Volume 4: Modernism - Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Author : Louis Shores
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Academic libraries
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Author : Samuel Maunder
Publisher :
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Classical dictionaries
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Author : John Joseph 1858-1909 Ogle
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781362054757
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Library catalogs
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