In Hawthorne's Shadow : American Romance from Melville to Mailer /

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""The world is so sad and solemn, "" wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne, ""that things meant in jest are liable, by an overwhelming influence, to become dreadful earnest; gaily dressed fantasies turning to ghostly and black-clad images of themselves."" From the radical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Coale, Samuel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864 > Influence.
Romanticism.
Manichaeism in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gothic & Romance.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Romantisme > États-Unis.
Roman americain > Histoire et critique.
Romanticism > United States.
American fiction > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hawthorne's shadow
  • Melville to Mailer: Manichean manacles
  • Harold Frederic: naturalism as romantic snarl
  • Faulkner, McCullers, O'Connor, Styron: the shadow on the South
  • John Cheever: suburban romancer
  • John Updike: the beauty of duality
  • John Gardner: slaying the dragon
  • Joyce Carol Oates: contending spirits
  • Joan Didion: witnessing the abyss
  • Hawthorne and the sixties: careening on the utmost verge.

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