In Hawthorne's shadow : American romance from Melville to Mailer / / Samuel Chase Coale

• Autore: Coale Samuel
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1985; ©1985
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.009/145
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - History and criticism; Romanticism - United States; Manichaeism in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. [233]-236.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Hawthorne's Shadow ; 2. Melville to Mailer: Manichean Manacles ; 3. Harold Frederic: Naturalism as Romantic Snarl ; 4. Faulkner, McCullers, O'Connor, Styron: The Shadow on the South ; 5. John Cheever: Suburban Romancer ; 6. John Updike: The Beauty of Duality ; 7. John Gardner: Slaying the Dragon ; 8. Joyce Carol Oates: Contending Spirits ; 9. Joan Didion: Witnessing the Abyss ; 10. Hawthorne and the Sixties: Careening on the Utmost Verge ; Notes ; Primary Sources ; Bibliographical Essay ; Index ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R ; ST; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: ""The world is so sad and solemn,"" wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne, ""that things meant in jest are liable, by an overwhelming influence, to become dreadful earnest; gaily dressed fantasies turning to ghostly and black-clad images of themselves."" From the radical dualism of Hawthorne's vision, Samuel Coale argues, springs a continuing tradition in the American novel. In Hawthorne's Shadow is the first critical study to describe precisely the formal shape of Hawthorne's psychological romance and to explore his themes and images in relation to such contemporary writers as John Cheever, Norman Mailer
• Titolo autorizzato: In hawthorne's shadow
• ISBN: 0-8131-6248-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460951603321
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