The American ideal : literary history as a worldly activity /

This monograph argues that the institution of American literary scholarship enshrines a reactionary view of history and narrative and an unrealistic view of America itself. The author also examines contemporary debates about the methods and status of literary history in general.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carafiol, Peter C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Criticism > United States > History.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Critique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Américains dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism.
Amerikaans.
Literatuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
United States.
Literature > History
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The problem of American literary scholarship
  • Reading the tradition: the rhetoric of transcendentalist scholarship
  • Time and textuality: Between metaphor and metaphysics: reading Emerson as "onward thinking" ; Writing in/as history: Thoreau's Week
  • American literary scholarship for the twentieth century.

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