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Jean-Pierre Richard
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ISBN: 2735210030 9782735210039 Year: 1993 Volume: 3 Publisher: Paris : Bertrand-Lacoste,


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Méthodes de critique littéraire
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ISBN: 2200213875 9782200213879 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris : Armand Colin,

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Les testaments trahis
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ISBN: 2070736059 9782070736058 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris Gallimard

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The language of drama : critical theory and practice
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ISBN: 0333516370 0333516389 9780333516386 Year: 1993 Publisher: Basingstoke London : MacMillan,


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L'énonciation littéraire III. Le contexte de l'oeuvre littéraire : énonciation, écrivain, société
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ISBN: 2100016881 9782100016884 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris : Dunod,


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L'histoire littéraire : théories et pratiques
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ISBN: 2735209830 2865650847 2735206068 9782735206063 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris : Toulouse : Bertrand-Lacoste, Centre régional de recherche et de documentation pédagogiques [C.R.D.P.] Midi-Pyrénées,


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Appropriating Shakespeare : contemporary critical quarrels
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ISBN: 0300054157 Year: 1993 Publisher: New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press,

Metaphors of genre : the role of analogies in genre theory
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ISBN: 0271008865 9780271023250 Year: 1993 Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,

Sounding differences : conversations with seventeen Canadian women writers
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ISBN: 0802027628 0802068081 Year: 1993 Publisher: Toronto,Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,

Fictions of form in American poetry
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ISBN: 0691069638 1306985005 140086352X 0691602034 9781400863525 Year: 1993 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that American poets tend to overvalue the formal aspects of their art and in turn overestimate the relationship between those formal aspects and various ideas of America. In this book Cushman examines poems and prose statements in which poets as diverse as Emily Dickinson and Ezra Pound describe their own poetic forms, and he investigates links and analogies between poets' notions of form and their notions of "Americanness.".The book begins with a brief discussion of Whitman, who said, "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem." Cushman takes this to mean that American poetry has succeeded in making fictions about itself which persuade its readers that its uniqueness transcends merely geographical boundaries. He explores the truth of this statement by considering the Americanness of Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, and A. R. Ammons. He concludes that the uniqueness of American poetry lies not so much in its forms as in its formalism and in the various attitudes that formalism reveals.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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