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American trajectories : authors and readings, 1790-1970 /
In American Trajectories Warner Berthoff argues that even in the broadest cultural and historical perspective, imaginative literature (like all the arts) is a matter of individual signatures and differences, but that there are also recognizable patterns and continuities marking off what is distincti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I
- 1. Continuity in Discontinuity: Literature in the American Situation
- Part II
- 2. "The People's Author": Attempting to Find Mr. Mark Twain
- 3. Emily Dickinson: The Community of the Poem
- 4. Adventures of the Young Man: Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn
- 5. The Scandal of Kate Chopin
- 6. O. Henry: His Life and Afterlife
- 7. Modern Instances: Brooks, Mumford, Dreiser
- The Mutual Admiration Pact of Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford
- Robert Penn Warren's Dreiser
- 8. "The Flight of the Rocket" and "The Last Good Country": Fitzgerald and Hemingway in the 1920s, and After
- 9. Pay Day: The Case of Nathan Asch
- A Note on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
- Pay Day's Critical Reception
- 10. "Everything Is All Right and Difficult": The Poems of Frank O'Hara
- 11. Life "Upstate": Edmund Wilson's American Memoir
- Part III
- 12. Culture and Consciousness, 1860-1915: The Onset of the Modern
- Permissions
- Index