1st Edition
Elegant Jeremiahs (Routledge Revivals) The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer
By George P. Landow
Copyright 1986
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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Labelled "an elegant Jeremiah" by a journalist of his day, the urbane Victorian Matthew Arnold must have received the comparison with the Old Testament prophet uneasily. Writing in the 1970s, Norman Mailer seems to owe nothing to the biblical for his description of a long hot wait to buy a cold drink while reporting on the first voyage to the moon. Yet both Arnold and Mailer, George P. Landow... Read more
Acknowledgments; Works Frequently Cited; Introduction: The Genre of the Sage; 1. The Prophetic Pattern 2. Symbolical Grotesques 3. The Word Restored: Definition, Redefinition, and Satiric Redefinition 4. The Sage as Master of Experience 5. Ethos, or the Appeal to Credibility; Afterword; Index
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George P. Landow
