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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... 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 pair , the " self , " has also had great power in our culture . Like America , the self operates ...
... 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 pair , the " self , " has also had great power in our culture . Like America , the self operates ...
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... myth , and society " signifies a departure from traditional ways of approaching American writings . From this perspective , the individual work is neither the expression of a transcendent con- sciousness nor is it the incarnation of an ...
... myth , and society " signifies a departure from traditional ways of approaching American writings . From this perspective , the individual work is neither the expression of a transcendent con- sciousness nor is it the incarnation of an ...
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... mythology . " 3 But if Canada was an exception that proved the rule , America was its antithesis , the example par excel- lence of collective fantasy . Consider the claims of Puritan origins . By comparison , myths of other national ...
... mythology . " 3 But if Canada was an exception that proved the rule , America was its antithesis , the example par excel- lence of collective fantasy . Consider the claims of Puritan origins . By comparison , myths of other national ...
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... myth was to historicize the Cana- dian identity - to see in it the contours of another , complementary myth . I refer to the dominant vision of Canada : a " loose scattering of enclaves or outposts of culture and civilization ...
... myth was to historicize the Cana- dian identity - to see in it the contours of another , complementary myth . I refer to the dominant vision of Canada : a " loose scattering of enclaves or outposts of culture and civilization ...
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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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