Making American Tradition: Visions and Revisions from Ben Franklin to Alice WalkerRutgers University Press, 1990 - 252 psl. Strout shows how an American tradition has developed through the responses of writers to the works of previous writers. He begins with the influence of Tocqueville on American literature, and how his vision brought minimal attention to time and place, and fostered the neglect of southern, black and female writers. Strout demonstrates how writers shed new light on many American themes as they responded to the predecessors. His comparisons cover Hawthorne and Updike; Emerson, Whitman, and William James; Twain and Doctorow; Twain and Faulkner; Lincoln and Jefferson; and Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison. ISBN 0-8135-1516-5 (pbk.) : $13.00. |
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... Lincoln mentions Jefferson only four times and then only as a fellow founder with Washington and Madison , whom Lincoln revered . The biographer correctly cites Henry Clay , the Whig leader , as Lincoln's " political idol . " He was a ...
... Lincoln mentions Jefferson only four times and then only as a fellow founder with Washington and Madison , whom Lincoln revered . The biographer correctly cites Henry Clay , the Whig leader , as Lincoln's " political idol . " He was a ...
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... Lincoln a hundred years in the future . While his position was certainly a moderate one , Lord Charnwood has perceptively remarked that it was " a deadly moderation , ” knowing ex- actly and in detail where and why it stood where it did ...
... Lincoln a hundred years in the future . While his position was certainly a moderate one , Lord Charnwood has perceptively remarked that it was " a deadly moderation , ” knowing ex- actly and in detail where and why it stood where it did ...
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... Lincoln's use of “ proposition ” and “ dedication ” for Jefferson's " We hold these truths to be self - evident , " points to the dynamic element in Lincoln's revision of the traditional theme . Equality is a task , not just an axiom or ...
... Lincoln's use of “ proposition ” and “ dedication ” for Jefferson's " We hold these truths to be self - evident , " points to the dynamic element in Lincoln's revision of the traditional theme . Equality is a task , not just an axiom or ...
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