Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
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Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
By (Author) Michael P. Kramer
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
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Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
420.7073
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1992
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Paperback
260
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
454g
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In this study of the rhetoric of American writings on language, Michael Kramer argues that the prevalent critical distinction between imaginative and nonimaginative writing is of limited theoretical use. Breaking down the artificial, disciplinary barriers between two areas of scholarly inquiry--the literature of the American Renaissance and the stu
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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992
