Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature

by David R. Jarraway

Book Overview

This bold new theoretical study explores dissident subjectivity, that is, the struggle for unique authorial identity in American literary discourse that has existed, according to David Jarraway, since the Romantics. From Emerson's "Experience" remarking upon the "focal distance within the actual horizon of human life" to Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize address sanctifying the artist's "sophisticated privileged space," American literature has continuously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807128392
• ISBN13: 9780807128398
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"