Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men: Essays on 19th and 20th Century American LiteratureCambridge University Press, 25 באוג׳ 1989 - 278 עמודים This book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men. Among the questions considered in the first section of the book are how does American Romantic writing differ from European; what are the peculiar problems faced by the American artist, and what roles does he adopt to tackle them; what kind of writing results when authors as different as Henry Adams and Mark Twain lament the vanishing of an earlier America, or when Adams and Henry James review their complex relationship to their homeland, or when W. D. Howells and Stephen Crane seek to define their themes in a specifically American setting. The second section of the book examines similar concerns in a number of contemporary writers, notably Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, John DeLillo, and William Gass. |
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תוכן
Scenes of nature signs of men | 1 |
Notes for a comparison between American and European Romanticism | 25 |
Problems and roles of the American artist as portrayed by the American novelist | 46 |
James on Hawthorne | 64 |
The lost America the despair of Henry Adams and Mark Twain | 79 |
Henry James and Henry Adams | 94 |
William Dean Howells and A Hazard of New Fortunes | 111 |
Stephen Crane | 133 |
The Bostonians and the human voice | 148 |
Games American writers play ceremony complicity contestation and carnival | 176 |
Toward an ultimate topography the work of Joseph McElroy | 206 |
Frames and sentences | 238 |
William Gasss barns and bees | 248 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Adams Adams's ambiguous American artist American literature American Romantic American writers attempt barns Basil beauty become characters Clemens consciousness contemporary course Crane death Deerslayer discourse dream Dunyazade Emerson essay Europe European everything experience feeling fiction figure Gass Gass's Gravity's Rainbow Hawthorne Hawthorne's Henry Adams Henry James Howells Howells's human human voice idea ideal imagination James's Joseph McElroy kind language live look Mark Twain matter McElroy McElroy's meaning memory metalanguage mind moral move mystery narrative narrator nature never novel novelist Olive Omensetter past perhaps preterite problem Puritan Pynchon Ransom reader reality refers relationship Roderick Hudson Romanticism Scarlet Letter scene seems sense sentence sexual shtip significance signs simply social society space speak story strange suggests Tarrant things truth trying turn Verena voice William Dean Howells William Gass words wrote