Transcribing the Territory; or, Rethinking Resistance : A Study in Classic American Fiction

Janusz Semrau

ISBN 10: 3631635400 / ISBN 13: 9783631635407

Published by Peter Lang, 2011

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Inspired by Martin Heidegger's notion of being-in-the-world, this study presents a quasi-phenomenological close reading of Herman Melville's most famous novella Bartleby the Scrivener and Mark Twain's most famous novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is meant as a broad critique of both cultural and intellectual rhetoric of recalcitrance, estrangement and awayness that has long predominated within interpretations of American literature. The study refers selectively to the works of such classic authors as James F. Cooper, Washington Irving, R. W. Emerson, H. D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Robert Frost, James Joyce, and Donald Barthelme. As an extended intertextual footnote, Transcribing the Territory advances also a more positive existential appreciation of the ostensibly forbidding landscape of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous romance The Scarlet Letter.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transcribing the Territory; or, Rethinking Resistance : A Study in Classic American Fiction
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631635400
• ISBN 13: 9783631635407
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 20D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 470 grams

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Synopsis

Inspired by Martin Heidegger’s notion of being-in-the-world, this study presents a quasi-phenomenological close reading of Herman Melville’s most famous novella Bartleby the Scrivener and Mark Twain’s most famous novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is meant as a broad critique of both cultural and intellectual rhetoric of recalcitrance, estrangement and awayness that has long predominated within interpretations of American literature. The study refers selectively to the works of such classic authors as James F. Cooper, Washington Irving, R. W. Emerson, H. D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Robert Frost, James Joyce, and Donald Barthelme. As an extended intertextual footnote, Transcribing the Territory advances also a more positive existential appreciation of the ostensibly forbidding landscape of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most famous romance The Scarlet Letter.

About the Author

Janusz Semrau teaches American literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and at the Academy of Management in Warsaw. He is the author of various publications.