Transcendental wordplay : America's romantic punsters and the search for the language of nature / Michael West.
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- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Knowledge -- Language and languages
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Et les mots d'esprit et les jeux de mots
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Puns and punning in literature
- American wit and humor -- History and criticism
- English language -- United States -- Rhetoric
- English language -- 19th century -- Rhetoric
- Transcendentalism (New England)
- Romanticism -- United States
- Nature in literature
- Plays on words
- Puns and punning
- Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Mots d'esprit et jeux de mots dans la littérature
- Humour américain -- Histoire et critique
- Anglais (Langue) -- États-Unis -- Rhétorique
- Anglais (Langue) -- 19e siècle -- Rhétorique
- Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine)
- Romantisme -- États-Unis
- Nature dans la littérature
- Mots d'esprit et jeux de mots
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric
- REFERENCE -- Writing Skills
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing
- American literature
- American wit and humor
- English language -- Rhetoric
- Language and languages
- Nature in literature
- Plays on words
- Puns and punning in literature
- Romanticism
- Transcendentalism (New England)
- United States
- American Literature
- English
- Languages & Literatures
- 1800-1899
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- PS217.P85 W47 2000eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-506) and index.
Spellers, punsters, and spread-eagle linguistics -- Enlightened Europeans, romantic Americans: origins of our transcendental quest for the language of nature -- Parsing the language of nature -- Antebellum America goes gaga over grammar -- Copyrighting etymological ecstasy -- Thoreau and the life of words -- The ironic drift in Antebellum language philosophy -- Go slow: man thinking -- Wordplay, romantic irony, and the forms of Antebellum fiction -- Savoring the wiles of words -- Whitman's experiments with language -- Thoreau and the sounds of silence -- Walden's antic dialectic between self and society -- Scatology and eschatology: the heroic dimensions of Thoreau's wordplay.
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