Grass Lark - Study of Lafcadio Hearn

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Stevenson held a variety of positions during her working life. She found a home at Emory University and retired as Candler Professor of American Studies in its graduate division. The Institute of the Liberal Arts. She is the author of Henry Adams and Babbitts and Bohemians, both available from Transaction. Klappentext This text looks at the life of the American writer Lafcadio Hearn! acclaimed for his macabre fiction! based on Japanese folklore. The book is as much about the writer as the man. It argues that his writings are not mere aids to the understanding of various cultures! but ends in themselves. Zusammenfassung It is remarkable how persistent a "minor" writer may be Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Acknowledgments, Preface, 1. Entrance, 2. Patrick Lafcadio, 3. Cincinnati Streets, 4. Sensational Reporter, 5. Low Life and Romanticism, 6. Flight Southward, 7. Poverty in the Sunshine, 8. A Creole City, 9. Stepson to New Orleans, 10. The Beach at Grand Isle, 11. Intensifications, 12. Underneath Pelée, 13. Cyclopean Streets, 14. Yokohama: Anteroom to Japan, 15. Land of the Gods, 16. Kitabori, 17. Buddha on a Hillside, 18. A Kobe View, 19. The Cedars of Kobudera, 20. Final Address, Notes, Selective Bibliography, Index

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Stevenson, Elizabeth Stevenson, Stevenson Elizabeth
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.1998
• EAN: 9780765804853
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0485-3
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form