American aphorism : a genealogy of anti-foundational American literature.

This study identifies a strain of American literature that resists integration into a progressive construction of the American mythos. The texts admitted under this lineage display a set of rhetorical strategies and paradigmatic concerns that are inherently aphoristic. Aphorism is the trope of the f...

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Main Author: Gregg, Catherine Jane
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. American Studies 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5588