03465oam 2200625I 450 991046420670332120200520144314.01-136-49501-01-315-01602-810.4324/9781315016023 (CKB)3710000000056580(EBL)3061153(SSID)ssj0001170308(PQKBManifestationID)11608803(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001170308(PQKBWorkID)11167533(PQKB)10136377(MiAaPQ)EBC3061153(Au-PeEL)EBL3061153(CaPaEBR)ebr10800341(CaONFJC)MIL761993(OCoLC)922959225(OCoLC)863157268(EXLCZ)99371000000005658020180331e20031986 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe unusable past theory and the study of American literature /Russell J. ReisingLondon :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (303 p.)The new accent series"First published 1986"--T.p. verso.0-415-86642-1 0-415-29140-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""General editor�s preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The unused past: theorists of American literature and the problem of exclusivity""; ""An unusable past?""; ""What is an American author?""; ""American literature: out of space - out of time""; ""The consolation of criticism""; ""2 The problem of Puritan origins in literary history and theory""; ""Puritanism as tragic vision: Perry Miller""; ""Puritanism as allegory: Yvor Winters, Richard Chase, and Leslie Fiedler""""Puritanism as rhetoric: Sacvan Bercovitch""""3 �Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is�: cultural theories of American literature""; ""Unreality in America: Lionel Trilling""; ""Parties of one: R. W. B. Lewis""; ""The romance of America: Richard Chase""; ""The apolitical unconscious: Leslie Fiedler""; ""An American fable: Leo Marx""; ""The Phelps farm revisited: cultural theorists on Huckleberry Finn""; ""4 American literature should not mean but be: self-reflexive theories of American literature""; ""D. H. Lawrence and American art-speech""""New Criticism and the American Renaissance: F. O. Matthiessen""""Making the world safefor symbolism: Charles Feidelson, Jr""; ""Worlds elsewhere: Richard Poirier""; ""Myths of American origins: post-structuralism""; ""�The world�s body'""; ""5 What is to be done?""; ""What is the American tradition?""; ""New directions""; ""The American scene""; ""6 Conclusion: the significance of Frederick Douglass""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""New accents (Routledge (Firm))American literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcCriticismUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.CriticismHistory.810.9Reising Russell.908494FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910464206703321The unusable past2031961UNINA