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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... meaning , whether through passionate surrenders and " letting go , " or heroic sacrifice . Like Emerson , James be- lieved that the higher power , felt as a control in the believer's experience , is " primarily the higher faculties of ...
... meaning , whether through passionate surrenders and " letting go , " or heroic sacrifice . Like Emerson , James be- lieved that the higher power , felt as a control in the believer's experience , is " primarily the higher faculties of ...
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... meaning of the national covenants and to persuade them to accept the onerous duties involved in making good on the covenantal promises . If leaders and led failed to understand correctly and to act appropriately , the nation would lose ...
... meaning of the national covenants and to persuade them to accept the onerous duties involved in making good on the covenantal promises . If leaders and led failed to understand correctly and to act appropriately , the nation would lose ...
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... meaning . " The folly of the cross , " James wrote , “ so inexplicable by the intellect , has yet its indestructible vital meaning . " Sorrow and suffering are , in his view , the soul's " heroic resources " in dealing with the " tragic ...
... meaning . " The folly of the cross , " James wrote , “ so inexplicable by the intellect , has yet its indestructible vital meaning . " Sorrow and suffering are , in his view , the soul's " heroic resources " in dealing with the " tragic ...
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