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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... literature is how late it came to be regarded as a national tradition . Even as late as 1941 , the English novelist H. G. Wells thought it was ridiculous for any American to call himself a professor of American literature . ' We now see ...
... literature is how late it came to be regarded as a national tradition . Even as late as 1941 , the English novelist H. G. Wells thought it was ridiculous for any American to call himself a professor of American literature . ' We now see ...
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... literature and ended forever the long period of neglect and condescension that had kept American literature a poor country cousin in English departments . It was an historic achievement , but it has had its price . Such a Tocquevillean ...
... literature and ended forever the long period of neglect and condescension that had kept American literature a poor country cousin in English departments . It was an historic achievement , but it has had its price . Such a Tocquevillean ...
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... literature in relation to society should be divorced from a full devotion to what literature is in itself , or why those who seek to analyze literary texts should cut off the act of writing from its irreducible sources in the life of ...
... literature in relation to society should be divorced from a full devotion to what literature is in itself , or why those who seek to analyze literary texts should cut off the act of writing from its irreducible sources in the life of ...
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