Washington Irving - American Writers 25 : University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers

With quick eye, ready tongue, and alert recognition of absurdities, Washington Irving sits quietly at both ends of the American literary spectrum -- an expatriate seeking reverently in Europe for sources of culture, but most effective in realizing American characters enmeshed in American ideals; and...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Leary, Lewis, 1906-1990
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 1963.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Irving, Washington.
Irving, Washington, > 1783-1859
Irving, Washington, > 1783-1859 > Critique et interpretation.
Irving, Washington, > 1783-1859 > Criticism and interpretation.
Authors, American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
HUMOR > General.
Écrivains americains > Biographies.
Authors, American > Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:With quick eye, ready tongue, and alert recognition of absurdities, Washington Irving sits quietly at both ends of the American literary spectrum -- an expatriate seeking reverently in Europe for sources of culture, but most effective in realizing American characters enmeshed in American ideals; and at the same time a native myth-maker who wove indigenous lore into comic tales which became fables. His country's first, but not her best, romantic historian; an early, but unsatisfying, impressionistic biographer; an exotic local colorist; a mildly boisterous, thigh-slapping, sidesplitting rural humorist;, a comic realist, a caricaturist. - p. 44.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (48 pages).
ISBN:9780816652129

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