{"product_id":"american-hieroglyphics-the-symbol-of-the-egyptian-hieroglyphics-in-the-american-renaissance-paperback","title":"American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn T. Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of classic works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville, John T. Irwin's \u003cem\u003eAmerican Hieroglyphics\u003c\/em\u003e examines the symbolic mode associated with the pictographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrwin demonstrates how American Symbolist literature of the period was motivated by what he calls -hieroglyphic doubling, - the use of pictographic expression as a medium of both expression and interpretation. Along the way, he touches upon a wide range of topics that fascinated people of the day, including the journey to the source of the Nile and ideas about the origin of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sophisticated examination of the American Symbolists, back in print for the first time in more than a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of classic works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville, John T. Irwin's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Hieroglyphics\u003c\/i\u003e examines the symbolic mode associated with the pictographs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrwin demonstrates how American Symbolist literature of the period was motivated by what he calls \"hieroglyphic doubling,\" the use of pictographic expression as a medium of both expression and interpretation. Along the way, he touches upon a wide range of topics that fascinated people of the day, including the journey to the source of the Nile and ideas about the origin of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is major scholarship, both as it contributes to American history of ideas and as it offers a brilliant new interpretation of major nineteenth-century American writers.--J. Hillis Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Hieroglyphics \u003c\/i\u003eis a major reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century American literary imagination.--\u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn T. Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e is the Decker Professor in the Humanities emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. His books include \u003ci\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: \"An Almost Theatrical Innocence\"\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHart Crane's Poetry: \"Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio\"\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eUnless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--J. Hillis Miller \"Nineteenth-Century Fiction\"\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sophisticated examination of the American Symbolists, back in print for the first time in more than a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of classic works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville, John T. Irwin's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Hieroglyphics\u003c\/i\u003e examines the symbolic mode associated with the pictographs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrwin demonstrates how American Symbolist literature of the period was motivated by what he calls \"hieroglyphic doubling,\" the use of pictographic expression as a medium of both expression and interpretation. Along the way, he touches upon a wide range of topics that fascinated people of the day, including the journey to the source of the Nile and ideas about the origin of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is major scholarship, both as it contributes to American history of ideas and as it offers a brilliant new interpretation of major nineteenth-century American writers.\"--J. Hillis Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Hieroglyphics \u003c\/i\u003eis a major reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century American literary imagination.\"--\u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn T. Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e is the Decker Professor in the Humanities emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. His books include \u003ci\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: \"An Almost Theatrical Innocence\"\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHart Crane's Poetry: \"Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio\"\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eUnless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn T. Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e is the Decker Professor in the Humanities emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. His books include \u003ci\u003eF. 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