1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002052579707536

Autore

Nicolosi, Salvatore

Titolo

Il "De providentia" di Sinesio di Cirene : studio critico e traduzione / Salvatore Nicolosi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Padova : CEDAM, 1959

Descrizione fisica

226 p. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

186.4

Soggetti

Synesius :, Cyrenensis., De providentia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789292603321

Autore

Buell Lawrence

Titolo

The dream of the great American novel / / Lawrence Buell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-674-72748-7

0-674-72632-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (584 p.)

Disciplina

813.009

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in literature

Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century

United States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE UNKILLABLE DREAM -- 1. Birth, Heyday, and Seeming Decline -- 2. Reborn from the Critical Ashes -- PART TWO. SCRIPT ONE: MADE CLASSIC BY RETELLING -- 3. The Reluctant Master Text -- PART THREE. SCRIPT TWO: ASPIRATION IN AMERICA -- Introduction -- 4. "Success" Stories from Franklin to the Dawn of Modernism -- 5. Belated Ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- 6. Up- From Narrative in Hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and Beyond -- PART FOUR. SCRIPT THREE: ROMANCING THE DIVIDES -- Introduction -- 7. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Aftermaths -- 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Its Others -- 9. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and Literary Interracialism North and South -- 10. Morrison's Beloved as Culmination and Augury -- PART FIVE. SCRIPT FOUR: IMPROBABLE COMMUNITIES -- Introduction -- 11. Moby- Dick: From Oblivion to Great American Novel -- 12. The Great American Novel of Twentieth- Century Breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.- or Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath? -- 13. Late Twentieth- Century Maximalism: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow- and Its Rainbow -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first book in many years to take in the full sweep of national fiction, The Dream of the Great American Novel explains why this supposedly antiquated idea continues to thrive. It shows that four G.A.N. "scripts" are keys to the dynamics of American literature and identity--and to the myth of a nation perpetually under construction.