Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men - Essays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature

Zusammenfassung This book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign'! to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Scenes of nature, signs of men; 2. Notes for a comparison between American and European Romanticism; 3. Problems and roles of the American artist as portrayed by the American novelist; 4. James on Hawthorne; 5. The lost America - the despair of Henry Adams and Mark Twain; 6. Henry James and Henry Adams; 7. William Dean Howells and A Hazard of New Fortunes; 8. Stephen Crane; 9. The Bostonians and the human voice; 10. Games American writers play: ceremony, complicity, contestation, and carnival; 11. Toward an ultimate topography: the work of Joseph McElroy; 12. Frames and sentences; 13. William Gass's barns and bees; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Tanner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.1989
• EAN: 9780521311557
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31155-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies