"The Country of Our Friendship": Jewett's Intimist Art

"The Country of Our Friendship": Jewett's Intimist Art

Sarah Orne Jewett's meditative novel "The Country of the Pointed First" makes manifest an intimist practice, offering one interpretation of what it would mean to "live deliberately" by making the terms one's own subjectivity an object of transforming inquiry and transfo...

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Veröffentlicht in:American literature 1999-06, Vol.71 (2), p.227-262
1. Verfasser: Shannon, Laurie
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Academic libraries
Communities
Friendship
Gestures
Herbs
Intimacy
Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849-1909)
Literary criticism
Narrators
Novels
Subjectivity
Symbolist art
Terminology
Writers
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Zusammenfassung:Sarah Orne Jewett's meditative novel "The Country of the Pointed First" makes manifest an intimist practice, offering one interpretation of what it would mean to "live deliberately" by making the terms one's own subjectivity an object of transforming inquiry and transformative interpersonalism. Each "event" in the novel centers on a station in friendship's intimacy.
ISSN:0002-9831
1527-2117