Ideas of Order
Ethics and Topos in the American Literature
Published in December 2006
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Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-3-7720-8186-6 (ISBN)
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Content
Introduction: The Line and the Law · Inscribing: Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World · Utopia & Oxidia: Henry David Thoreau's Walden · Our Fabulous Place: Herman Melville's The Confidence Man · Describing: Wallace Stevens' The Man with the Blue Guitar · The Topography of Interpretation: J.Hillis Miller's Versions of Pygmalion · Postscript: Penelope's Fabric