{"product_id":"american-hieroglyphics-9781421421155","title":"American Hieroglyphics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Champollion and the Historical Background; Emerson's Hieroglyphical Emblems\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Thoreau: The Single, Basic Form — Patenting a Leaf\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Whitman: Hieroglyphic Bibles and Phallic Songs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Poe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Hieroglyphics and the Quest for Origins: The Myth of Hieroglyphic Doubling\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Ends and Origins: The Voyage to the Polar Abyss and the Journey to the Source of the Nile; The Survival of the Manuscript\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Certainty and Credibility — Self-Evidence and Self-Reference; Nietzsche and Tragedy — Whitman and Opera; The Open Road\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Writing Self \/ Written Self; The Dark Double; The Overwhelming of the Vessel \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Cannibalism and Sacrifice; Metaphors of the Body — Transfiguration, Transubstantiation, Resurrection, and Ascension\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Narcissus and the Illusion of Depth\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Self-Recognition; Deciphering a Mnemic Inscription; Historical Amnesia and Personal Anamnesis\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Repetition; Symbolic Death and Rebirth; The Infinite and Indefinite; The Mechanism of Foreshadowing\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. The Unfinished Narrative; The Cavern Inscription on Tsalal; Survival in an Image\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. The White Shadow; Imaging the Indefinite; Reading the Spirit from the Letter; The Finality of Revenge; The Alogical Status of the Self\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. The Return to Oneness; Breaking the Crypt; The Limits of Interpretation; The Ultimate Certainty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Hawthorne and Melville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Hawthorne: The Ambiguity of the Hieroglyphics; The Unstable Self and Its Roles; Mirror Image and Phonetic Veil; The Feminine Role of the Artist; Veil and Phallus; The Book as Partial Object\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Melville: The Indeterminate Ground; A Conjunction of Fountain and Vortex; The Myth of Isis and Osiris; Master Oppositions; The Doubleness of the Self and the Illusion of Consistent Character; Dionysus and Apollo; Mask and Phallus; The Chain of Partial Objects\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408120521047,"sku":"9781421421155","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421421155.jpg?v=1730501658","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-hieroglyphics-9781421421155","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}