Home as Found: Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureJohns Hopkins University Press, 03/10/1979 - 238 páginas Originally published in 1979. Eric Sundquist takes four representative writers—James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville—and considers the way in which each grapples with the crucial issues of genealogy and authority in his works. From all four a common pattern emerges: the desire to revolt against the past is countered by the need to invoke or even repeat it. Sundquist's approach to the texts is psychoanalytic, but he does not attempt a clinical dissection of each writer; rather, he determines how personal crisis became material for engaging with larger questions of social and literary crisis. |
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Plowing homeward | 41 |
The home of the dead | 86 |
At home in his words | 143 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Adam American ancestors apple arrowhead attempt authority become castration Cooper craft crisis cultivation daguerreotype dead democratic desire double dream echoes Edward Effingham Effingham Enceladus eyes fact fantasy father fiction figure finds Freud frontier garden Glendinning Hall of Fantasy haunting Hawthorne Hawthorne's Herman Melville Holgrave Holgrave's Home as Found House identity imitation incest Indian irony Isabel journal landscape language Leatherstocking Tales lost marriage Medusa Melville Melville's memory mimesis mimetic mirror Moby Dick Moby-Dick mocking mother mysterious narrative narrator Natty Natty Bumppo Natty's Nature Oedipal once original paradise paradox parody passage past paternal perception phallus Pierre Pierre's Pioneers plow primitive Pyncheon question remarks representation represents revenge ritual romance sacred sacrifice Scarlet Letter scene Silence speculation story symbol takes Templeton thing Thoreau thorne's threat tion totem meal transgression truth turns uncanny University Press violence Walden Week wild wilderness writing York
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Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature ... Shirley Samuels Pré-visualização limitada - 1996 |