American ambitions : selected essays on literary and cultural themes /
| Основен автор: | Spears, Monroe Kirklyndorf. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
c1987.
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Съдържание:
- pt. 1.
- Ancestors:
- Cotton Mather
- William James as culture hero
- pt. 2.
- Poetry:
- Revolution in American poetry
- Life and art in Robert Lowell
- Daniel Hoffman and the American epic
- James Dickey: Southern visionary as celestial navigator
- Robert Penn Warren as hardy American
- pt. 3.
- Criticism:
- The function of literary quarterlies
- The criticism of Allen Tate
- A little man who was a writer: R.P. Blackmur
- Cleanth Brooks and the responsibilities of criticism
- Robert Pen Warren as critic
- Two doctors for critics: René Wellek and Randall Jarrell
- Two women critics: Helen Vendler and Ursula Le Guin
- pt. 4.
- Fiction:
- George Garrett and the historical novel
- A new classic: Madison Jones, A cry of absence
- Two Southern gentlemen as heroes
- pt. 5.
- Aspects of the culture:
- Southern fictions in visual art
- Jewish intellectuals of New York
- Black English.