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Unusable past.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- General editor�s preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The unused past: theorists of American literature and the problem of exclusivity
- An unusable past?
- What is an American author?
- American literature: out of space
- out of time
- The consolation of criticism
- 2 The problem of Puritan origins in literary history and theory
- Puritanism as tragic vision: Perry Miller
- Puritanism as allegory: Yvor Winters, Richard Chase, and Leslie Fiedler
- Puritanism as rhetoric: Sacvan Bercovitch3 �Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is�: cultural theories of American literature
- Unreality in America: Lionel Trilling
- Parties of one: R.W.B. Lewis
- The romance of America: Richard Chase
- The apolitical unconscious: Leslie Fiedler
- An American fable: Leo Marx
- The Phelps farm revisited: cultural theorists on Huckleberry Finn
- 4 American literature should not mean but be: self-reflexive theories of American literature
- D. H. Lawrence and American art-speech
- New Criticism and the American Renaissance: F.O. MatthiessenMaking the world safefor symbolism: Charles Feidelson, Jr
- Worlds elsewhere: Richard Poirier
- Myths of American origins: post-structuralism
- �The world�s body'
- 5 What is to be done?
- What is the American tradition?
- New directions
- The American scene
- 6 Conclusion: the significance of Frederick Douglass
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index