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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... reader that adultery is a theme he shares with Hawthorne ; but in Roger's Version the references are further developed with the allusive names of Dale Kohler and Esther Lambert , and the reader is bidden to consider seriously the ...
... reader that adultery is a theme he shares with Hawthorne ; but in Roger's Version the references are further developed with the allusive names of Dale Kohler and Esther Lambert , and the reader is bidden to consider seriously the ...
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... reader something perti- nent in contemporary terms about the meaning of the past . The author himself told a ... readers know it ) another precursor text ; his hero Coalhouse Walker is an updating of the hero in Heinrich von Kleist's ...
... reader something perti- nent in contemporary terms about the meaning of the past . The author himself told a ... readers know it ) another precursor text ; his hero Coalhouse Walker is an updating of the hero in Heinrich von Kleist's ...
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... reader on familiar ground by making a case for the guilt of the white establish- ment in its eagerness to punish Bigger as a monster ; and the liberal reader can appreciate the grim irony that Bigger is charged for a rape that he did ...
... reader on familiar ground by making a case for the guilt of the white establish- ment in its eagerness to punish Bigger as a monster ; and the liberal reader can appreciate the grim irony that Bigger is charged for a rape that he did ...
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