Thoreau's Wild Rhetoric

By Henry Golemba

In Thoreau's Wild Rhetoric, Golemba examines how Thoreau took great interest in a linguistic agony that he found to be specific to American Romantics. These writers sought to be willed (clear, didactic, and inspirational) yet also desired to stress a wild rhetoric, one that used contradiction, paradox, and textual gaps. famous works like Walden as well as neglected pieces like The Landlord. In concerntrating on linguistic schisms, this book clarifies the significant communicative problems which faced Romantic artists, and were also crucial to extra-literary discourses of religion, law, and the popular culture of his era.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814730361
• ISBN13: 9780814730362
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"