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The Line's Eye : Poetic Experience, American Sight
The Line's Eye Poetic Experience American Sight Author:Elisa New By viewing the American poetic tradition through the prism of pragmatism, Elisa New contests the claim that American vision is implicitly possessive. She argues that American poems see more fully, and less invasively, than accounts of American literature as an inscription of imperial national ideology would allow. Moreover, their ways of seeing ... more »draw on, and develop, a vigorous mode of national representation alternative to the appropriative sort found in the quintessential American genre of encounter, the romance.« less