The Form of American Romance - Couverture rigide

Dryden, Edgar

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801836751 ISBN 13 : 9780801836756

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Originally published in 1988. Edgar Dryden challenges recent criticism that has tended to discredit―or at least devalue―the importance of "romance" as a thematic and generic category of American fiction. In The Form of American Romance, he examines its evolution and meaning through readings of five exemplary texts: Hawthorne's Marble Faun, Melville's Pierre, James's Portrait of a Lady, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and Barth's Letters. Each of these novels treats the problems of reading and writing in a self-referential way that reflects on the questions they dramatize, and Dryden has chosen each with the others in mind. Taken together, they chart a line of development with representative examples of what literary history calls romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism, and thus they suggest a certain story about the continuity of the American novel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edgar A. Dryden is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Arizona. He also taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801836751
• ISBN 13: 9780801836756
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible