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The Tiger's Leap and the Dog's Paw: Method, Matter, and Meaning in the History of the Book
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The Tiger's Leap and the Dog's Paw: Method, Matter, and Meaning in the History of the Book

Matthew P Brown
Early American Literature, Vol.44(3), pp.657-675
09/01/2009
DOI: 10.1353/eal.0.0078

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[...] it creates this latter developmental temporality-a seamless recognition of antecedents, a Whiggish, high-fiving confirmation as we moderns look back-by slighting, dismissing, or repressing the later bricks as "non-historic." [...] a third way occurs: consider the serious play of a cat, batting at the past with the mix of fierce intensity, lingering meditation, and distracted hustle that balls of yarn or string toys inspire.
Studies Antecedents Historical text analysis Writing Criticism Time Books

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