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The contemporary American comic epic : the novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey
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ISBN: 0814320503 Year: 1989 Publisher: Detroit (Mich.) : Wayne state university press,

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Whitman's poetry of the body: sexuality, politics and the text
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ISBN: 0807818275 Year: 1989 Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press

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Discovering ourselves in Whitman: the contemporary American long poem
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ISBN: 0252016300 Year: 1989 Publisher: Urbana, Ill. University of Illinois Press

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Vooronderstellingen achter de ontwikkelingstheorieën van Walt W. Rostow
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ISBN: 9062568335 9789062568338 Year: 1989 Publisher: Amsterdam VU Uitgeverij


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Bardic ethos and the American epic poem : Whitman, Pound, Crane, Williams, Olson
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ISBN: 0807114782 Year: 1989 Publisher: Baton Rouge (La.) : Louisiana state university press,

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What I cannot say : self, word, and world in Whitman, Stevens, and Merwin
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ISBN: 0252015428 Year: 1989 Publisher: Urbana Chicago University of Illinois Press


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Nineteenth century American poetry : an annotated bibliography
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ISBN: 0893566519 Year: 1989 Volume: *10 Publisher: Pasadena Englewood Cliffs Salem Press

The American epic : transforming a genre, 1770-1860
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ISBN: 0521373220 0521107024 0511666632 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge New York [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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John McWilliams's 1990 book was the first thorough account of the many attempts to fashion an epic literature (the anxiously anticipated 'American Epic') from a wide range of potentially heroic New World subjects. At the outset, McWilliams considers the many problems - cultural, political and literary' - of adapting Enlightenment views of republican progress to a genre that had traditionally celebrated the greatness of warriors. After a survey of the many epic poems written during and after the American Revolution, McWilliams shows how and why the epic had to be transformed from imitative narrative poetry into the new, open genres of prose history (Irving, Prescott and Parkman), fictional romance (Cooper and Melville) and free verse (Whitman). Believing that reviews are an important and slighted agent of literary change, McWilliams has written his book in the form of chronological literary history. His book, however, is no march of dates within tired categories. The American Epic suggests that imaginative writers of the Romantic era were in fact far less proscriptive about the boundaries of literary genre than many a twentieth-century writer and scholar.

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