[PDF] Form And Fable In American Fiction eBook

Author : Daniel Hoffman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813915258

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Combining the disciplines of folklore and literary criticism in his perceptive readings of works by Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, and Mark Twain, Daniel Hoffman demonstrates how these authors transformed materials from both high and popular culture, from their European past and their American present, in works that helped to form our national consciousness. In his new preface, Hoffman describes the evolution of his critical method and suggests the book's value for contemporary readers.

Author : Daniel Hoffman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813915258

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Combining the disciplines of folklore and literary criticism in his perceptive readings of works by Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, and Mark Twain, Daniel Hoffman demonstrates how these authors transformed materials from both high and popular culture, from their European past and their American present, in works that helped to form our national consciousness. In his new preface, Hoffman describes the evolution of his critical method and suggests the book's value for contemporary readers.

Author : Christian K. Messenger
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 1983-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231516614

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In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in touch with its people, their traditions, and their fantasy lives. This is the first inclusive critical study of sport in American fiction with chapters on individual authors such as Hawthorne, Lardner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner, as well as studies of sport in the literature of the frontier and in boys' formula fiction. A work of literary criticism, Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction also draws on the cultural history of American sport and leisure and on a century of American literature.

Author : Paul Delaney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474400663

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This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Author : Magnus Ullén
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783039102006

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This book takes issue with the tendency in twentieth-century Hawthorne-criticism to blur the distinction between symbolism and allegory. Rejecting the long-standing notion that Hawthorne is a symbolist in allegorical disguise, Ullén argues that allegory is the key to understanding how religion, sexuality, aesthetics and politics are interwoven in Hawthorne's writings. The study presents a model for allegorical interpretation of general applicability, which is brought to bear on each of Hawthorne's mature romances, and on the oft-neglected Wonder Books written for children. An unparalleled analysis of the formal intricacies of Hawthorne's writings, this book is an eloquent plea for the necessity of grounding ideological analysis in aesthetical considerations.

Author : Brian Yothers
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1640140530

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An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.