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Biografie

1 st ed.

London : Penguin, 1995

x,797 s.

ISBN 0-14-013815-3 (brož.)

The New Pelican guide to English literature ; 9

Penguin literary criticism

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Bibliografie: s. 669-771

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General Introduction: Boris Ford ix // Part I // Literature and Society in Colonial America: Susan Manning 3 // Part II: From Cooper to James // The Social and Cultural Setting: Hugh Brogan 29 // The Literary Scene: Harold Beaver 53 // Fenimore Cooper and the Leatherstocking Novels: // T. A. Birrell 75 // Emerson: Experiments in Creation: Joel Porte 85 // Nathaniel Hawthorne, Artist of Puritanism: Susan Manning 97 // Edgar Allan Poe: The Meaning of Style: R. D. Gooder 111 // Herman Melville: In the Wake of the White Whale: Harold Beaver 127 // Some Lines from Whitman: Randall Jarrell 139 // Defining the Self: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: L. C. knights 153 // Mark Twain: Eric Mottram 166 // Crane, Norris, and London: John Fraser 184 // The American Adams: Wayne Fields 199 // Kate Chopin and Sarah Ome Jewett: Pearl K. Bell 213 // Henry James: The Ambiguitics of Culture: Alwyn Berland 228 // Theodore Dreiser: Promising Dreamers: Philip Fisher 251 // Edith Wharton: Michael Millgate 263 // Part III: The Modern Age // The Social and Cultural Context: Alan Trachtenberg 281 // The Literary Scene: Lillian Feder 307 // The Designs of Robert Frost: William H. Pritchard 354 // Eliot, Williams and Pound in the Twenties: Donald Davie 368 // Wallace Stevens and the Poetry of Scepticism: Charles Tomlinson 393 // Willa Cathcr and ‘A Way of Remembering Youth’: Blanche H. Gelfant 410 // ‘The Flight of the Rocket’ and ‘The Last Good Country’: Fitzgerald and Hemingway in the 1920s: Warner Berthoff 419 // John Dos Passos and Nathanael West: Satirists ofthe American Scene: Townsend Ludington 435 // Eugene O’Neill and Real Realism: Jean Chothia 447 // Casting a Long Shadow: Faulkner and Southern Literature: Fred Hobson 461 // Form and Meaning in American Literary Criticism: Richard Ruland 478 // Henry Miller and Norman Mailer: John W. Aldridge 501 // Saul Bellow’s Enigmatic Ironies: Frank Whitehead 515 //

Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke and Sylvia Plath: David Holbrook 533 // v Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee: Peter Davison 553 // Black Writers — Jewish Writers — Women Writers: Frederick R. Karl 566 // American Indian Poetry and the ‘Other’ Traditions: Jerome Rothenberg 83 // ‘Forget About Being Original’: Recent American Poetics: Eric Mottram 595 // Four Decades of Contemporary American Fiction: Eugene Goodheart 617 // Continuity or Discontinuity in American Literature?: Seymour Betsk 638 // Part IV // Continuity in Discontinuity: Literature in the American Situation: Warner Berthoff 651 // Part V: Bibliography, compiled by Peter Davison 669 // Acknowledgements 759 // Notes on Contributors 762 // Index 767