Failure and the American Writer / Jones Gavin

Public ISBD Titre : Failure and the American Writer : A Literary History Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Jones Gavin, Auteur Editeur : Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Cambridge University Press Année de publication : 2014 Collection : Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Importance : 211 p. Format : 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 centimetres (0.32 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-107-66217-9 Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : The.American  Writer. Résumé : If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Reading textual inconsistency against the backdrop of a turbulent nineteenth century, Gavin Jones describes how the difficulties these writers faced in their faltering search for new styles, coherent characters and satisfactory endings uncovered experiences of blunder and inadequacy hidden in the culture at large. Through Jones's treatment, these American writers emerge as the great theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self, founded in moral fallibility, precarious knowledge and negative feelings. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Introduction: Henry Adams and the catastrophic century; 1. Falling for Edgar Allan Poe; 2. Herman Melville in the doldrums; 3. The disappointments of Henry David Thoreau; 4. Stephen Crane's fake war; 5. The double failure of Mark Twain; 6. Sarah Orne Jewett falling short; 7. The faltering style of Henry James; Conclusion. Failure and the American Writer : A Literary History [texte imprimé] / Jones Gavin, Auteur . - Cambridge (United Kingdom) : Cambridge University Press, 2014 . - 211 p. ; 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 centimetres (0.32 kg). - (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) . ISBN : 978-1-107-66217-9 Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : The.American  Writer. Résumé : If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Reading textual inconsistency against the backdrop of a turbulent nineteenth century, Gavin Jones describes how the difficulties these writers faced in their faltering search for new styles, coherent characters and satisfactory endings uncovered experiences of blunder and inadequacy hidden in the culture at large. Through Jones's treatment, these American writers emerge as the great theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self, founded in moral fallibility, precarious knowledge and negative feelings. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Introduction: Henry Adams and the catastrophic century; 1. Falling for Edgar Allan Poe; 2. Herman Melville in the doldrums; 3. The disappointments of Henry David Thoreau; 4. Stephen Crane's fake war; 5. The double failure of Mark Twain; 6. Sarah Orne Jewett falling short; 7. The faltering style of Henry James; Conclusion.

Réservation

Réserver ce document

Exemplaires

Code-barres	Cote	Support	Localisation	Section	Disponibilité
823.316-3	823.316-3	Livre externe	BIBLIOTHEQUE DES LITTERATURES ET LANGUES	Lettres et langue anglaises (bll)	Disponible

In Respect to Egotism / Joel Porte

Public ISBD Titre : In Respect to Egotism : Studies in American Romantic Writing Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Joel Porte, Auteur Editeur : Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Cambridge University Press Année de publication : 2009 Collection : Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Importance : 336 p. Format : 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 centimetres (0.50 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-521-11000-6 Note générale : Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display, self-projection, and self-concealment. The book begins by exploring the status of the 'text' in nineteenth-century American writing, the relationship of 'rhetorical' reading to historical context, and the nature of 'Romanticism' in an American setting. Porte then concentrates on the great authors of the period through a series of thematically linked but critically discrete essays on Brown, Irving, Parkman, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Douglass, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson. Throughout his important new study, Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar texts while at the same time casting an illuminating critical eye on less well-known territory. Readers of this book will come away with increased respect for the achievement of American Romantic writers. Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : American-Romantic  Writing. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Writing, reading, Romanticism; 1. 'Where...Is this singular career to terminate?': Bewildered pilgrims in early American fiction; 2. 'Where there is no vision, the people perish...': Prophets and Pariahs in the Forest of the New World; 3. Poe: Romantic centre, critical margin; 4. Emerson: experiments in self-creation; 5. Hawthorne: 'The obscurest man of letters in America'; 6. Thoreau's self-perpetuating artefacts; 7. Melville: Romantic cock-and-bull; or, the great art of telling the truth; 8. Douglass and Stowe: scriptures of the redeemed self; 9. Whitman: 'Take me as I am or not at all...'; Interchapter: Walt and Emily; 10. Dickinson's 'Celestial vail': snowbound in self-consciousness; Notes; Index. In Respect to Egotism : Studies in American Romantic Writing [texte imprimé] / Joel Porte, Auteur . - Cambridge (United Kingdom) : Cambridge University Press, 2009 . - 336 p. ; 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 centimetres (0.50 kg). - (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) . ISBN : 978-0-521-11000-6 Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display, self-projection, and self-concealment. The book begins by exploring the status of the 'text' in nineteenth-century American writing, the relationship of 'rhetorical' reading to historical context, and the nature of 'Romanticism' in an American setting. Porte then concentrates on the great authors of the period through a series of thematically linked but critically discrete essays on Brown, Irving, Parkman, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Douglass, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson. Throughout his important new study, Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar texts while at the same time casting an illuminating critical eye on less well-known territory. Readers of this book will come away with increased respect for the achievement of American Romantic writers. Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : American-Romantic  Writing. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Writing, reading, Romanticism; 1. 'Where...Is this singular career to terminate?': Bewildered pilgrims in early American fiction; 2. 'Where there is no vision, the people perish...': Prophets and Pariahs in the Forest of the New World; 3. Poe: Romantic centre, critical margin; 4. Emerson: experiments in self-creation; 5. Hawthorne: 'The obscurest man of letters in America'; 6. Thoreau's self-perpetuating artefacts; 7. Melville: Romantic cock-and-bull; or, the great art of telling the truth; 8. Douglass and Stowe: scriptures of the redeemed self; 9. Whitman: 'Take me as I am or not at all...'; Interchapter: Walt and Emily; 10. Dickinson's 'Celestial vail': snowbound in self-consciousness; Notes; Index.

Réservation

Réserver ce document

Exemplaires

Code-barres	Cote	Support	Localisation	Section	Disponibilité
823.322-3	823.322-3	Livre externe	BIBLIOTHEQUE DES LITTERATURES ET LANGUES	Lettres et langue anglaises (bll)	Disponible

---

page 1/1