The art of the threshold: a poetics of liminality in Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman

Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman were all drawn to visions of transition in the natural world as a way to define the passage between world and self, but their focus on the endlessly unfolding potential of the aesthetic ideal in the "space between" gave rise to a poetics of liminality that mak...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wry, Joan
Other Authors: Peter Gibian (Internal/Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2011
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97124