Resistant Essays - Couverture souple

Bier, Jesse

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0819192724 ISBN 13 : 9780819192721

Editeur : University Press of America, 1993

Synopsis

These selected essays are a broad demonstration of 'new critical' techniques that otherwise have been muted in today's criticism. In an attempt to re-establish formal and contextual 'perspectivism' in the face of today's reigning relativism and nihilism, the author reaffirms and vindicates techniques which grasp the objective text and meaning. Contents: Stendhal's The Red and the Black: Existential Psychology in a World Class Novel; A Century of War and Peace: Gone, Gone with the Wind; The Bravest Volcano and Under the Boat: The Two Lowrys'; A Lost Canadian Work: James Benson Nablo's The Longest November; The Higher Criticism-or Flash Gordon Revisited; The Masterpieces in Science Fiction: Power or Parody? Cobb and Kubrick: Author and 'Auteur' (Paths of Glory as Novel and Film); Writers Don't Know It All; The Sense of Sound; Poe's 'The Raven': The Values of Negative Teaching; In Defense of Roth; O'Hara's Appointment of Samarra: His First and Only Real Novel; Jake Barnes, Cockroaches, the Trout in The Sun Also Rises; 'Bless You, Chile': Fiedler and 'Huck Honey' A Generation Later; Henry James' 'The Jolly Corner': The Writer's Fable and the Deeper Matter; Melville's 'The Fiddler' Reconsidered; Lapsarians on The Prairie: Cooper's Novel; Weberism, Franklin, and Transcendental Style; Benjamin Franklin: Guilt and Transformation-The Man Behind the Myth.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jesse Bier is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Montana.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819192724
• ISBN 13: 9780819192721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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