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Hardcover Miles of Stare: Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America Book
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ISBN: 0817318356

ISBN13: 9780817318352

Miles of Stare: Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America

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Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.

The strangeness of nineteenth-century poetic vision is exemplified most famously by Emerson's transparent eyeball. That disembodied, omniscient seer is able to shed its body and transcend sight paradoxically...

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