National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American LiteratureStanford University Press, 2007 - 322 psl. In National Melancholy, Breitwieser offers close readings of important American writers (Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Orne Jewett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Jack Kerouac) who were struggling to understand mourning, both in their own experience and in the abstract. He draws attention to their inquiries into the way mourning gets blocked or diverted, especially into external social interferences with mourning designed to transform mournful emotions into feelings of solidarity with national causes, and into the depression that follows from such false mourning. Emphasizing their struggle to repossess mourning, he argues that for several of them reclaimed mourning opened a door onto a strange and fresh understanding of experience. |
Turinys
The Time of the Double | 1 |
Anne Bradstreet | 57 |
Thomas Jeffersons Prospect | 84 |
Who Speaks and Who Writes in Walt Whitmans Poems? | 122 |
Henry David Thoreau and the Wrecks on Cape Cod | 144 |
Sarah Orne Jewett Regionalism | 160 |
F Scott Fitzgerald Jack Kerouac and the Puzzle | 247 |
F Scott Fitzgerald and Epochal | 263 |
Notes | 281 |
Works Cited | 305 |
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National Melancholy– Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature Mitchell Robert Breitwieser Trumpų ištraukų rodinys - 2007 |
Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
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