Cohesion and Dissent in AmericaCarol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana State University of New York Press, 23 дек. 1993 г. - Всего страниц: 252 This book addresses one of the most important theories to arise in recent American literary scholarship. Developed over the past two decades, Sacvan Bercovitch's ideas about the relationship of American cultural institutions to voices of dissent have repeatedly posed challenges to pervasive assumptions about American culture and the methods used by cultural critics and literary historians. The contributors to this book respond to different aspects of Bercovitch's ideas by exploring a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including American, Chicano, Amerindian, African-American, Asian-American, feminist, comparatist, philosophical, legal, and critical studies. In addition to essays that focus on the theoretical backgrounds and implications of Bercovitch's concepts, this book interrogates the uses of those concepts in the study of American literatures. Works by a variety of American writers are analyzed: the Colonial poet Phillis Wheatly; nineteenth-century writers Hawthorne and Melville; modernists Pound and Eliot; contemporary authors John Barth, Norman Mailer, Arturo Islas, and John Yau; and philosophers William James and Stanley Cavell. This book offers new directions to students of American culture, while it participates in the ongoing reassessment of American cultural and literary scholarship. |
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... Ameri- can culture . Accordingly , he centers his analysis " on the interac- tion of language , myth , and society , in an effort to trace the sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America . " 3 The other term in this ...
... Ameri- can culture . Accordingly , he centers his analysis " on the interac- tion of language , myth , and society , in an effort to trace the sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America . " 3 The other term in this ...
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... Ameri- can culture and pessimism about the possibility of change . Such a closed , deterministic analysis could seem the logical outcome of a theoretical opposition between individual will and social cohesion that inevitably Introduction ...
... Ameri- can culture and pessimism about the possibility of change . Such a closed , deterministic analysis could seem the logical outcome of a theoretical opposition between individual will and social cohesion that inevitably Introduction ...
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... Ameri- can literature and culture , we may find a counterbalance to the ap- parent logic of determinism . Indeed , a sensitivity to the urgency of Bercovitch's prose suggests that however difficult or improbable the possibilities of ...
... Ameri- can literature and culture , we may find a counterbalance to the ap- parent logic of determinism . Indeed , a sensitivity to the urgency of Bercovitch's prose suggests that however difficult or improbable the possibilities of ...
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... Ameri- can Dissent / Descent , " notes a series of recurrent tensions in Eliot's writings , particularly his prose . Childs suggests that by rec- ognizing Eliot's reactions to Puritan rhetoric and ideology we can develop a fuller ...
... Ameri- can Dissent / Descent , " notes a series of recurrent tensions in Eliot's writings , particularly his prose . Childs suggests that by rec- ognizing Eliot's reactions to Puritan rhetoric and ideology we can develop a fuller ...
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... Ameri- can Renaissance ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1941 ) , ix . Critics have recently reassessed Matthiessen's work , noting the conflicts between his stated political allegiances and his inattention to slavery and race rela ...
... Ameri- can Renaissance ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1941 ) , ix . Critics have recently reassessed Matthiessen's work , noting the conflicts between his stated political allegiances and his inattention to slavery and race rela ...
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Sacvan Bercovitch Stanley Cavell and the | 48 |
T S Eliots American DissentDescent | 77 |
The Orient as Pretext for Aesthetic | 114 |
Part III | 131 |
The Hybridity of Culture in | 159 |
Norman Mailer and the Radical Text | 174 |
Critical Dissent | 229 |
Contributors | 251 |
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