Rewriting the Dream: Reflections on the Changing American Literary CanonRodopi, 1992 - 266 páginas Essay themes include the politics of gender and canon-formation, canonical appropriation, ethnicity and the ltierary canon, and canon formation as a social process. |
Índice
| 3 | |
Uncle Toms Canon | 22 |
Acceptance or Appropriation? | 43 |
Toni Morrison | 60 |
James Pound and Eliot | 101 |
Karl Shapiros Crusade against the Canon | 120 |
HANS BERTENS | 129 |
Allegory the American Canon and Thomas Pynchons | 141 |
The Canonizers and the Canonized | 245 |
| 265 | |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
allegory American canon American dream American literary American literature American Renaissance Americanists appears authors become Beloved Bildungsroman black and Jewish Breedloves Brown called canon of American canon-formation Cassandra century character Charles Brockden Charles Brockden Brown classic Constantia contemporary Crying of Lot cultural debate dominant Dutch England English literature epistemological essay Esther fact father female feminist fiction gender genre Gothic Gravity's Rainbow Hazard Henry Adams ideological James Jews letter literary canon literary criticism literary history Longfellow male masculine Melville Melville's modern Monrose Morgesons mother myth NAAL narrative Netherlands nineteenth-century novel novelist Ormond Pecola Penguin Companion poems poet poetry political postmodernism Press protagonist published Pynchon's question Raymond Carver reader Redburn rememorying sense Sethe Shapiro slave social sphere Stoddard story suggests symbolic T.S. Eliot Thomas Pynchon Toni Morrison tradition translation Uncle Tom's Cabin Univ Veronica woman women writers York
Passagens conhecidas
Página xix - Do you have feelings? There are correct and incorrect ways of indicating them. Do you have an inner life? It is nobody's business but your own. Do you have emotions? Strangle them. To a degree, everyone obeys this code.
Página xix - But on the truest candor, it has an inhibitory effect. Most serious matters are closed to the hardboiled. They are unpracticed in introspection, and therefore badly equipped to deal with opponents whom they cannot shoot like big game or outdo in daring. If you have difficulties, grapple with them silently, goes one of their commandments.
Página ix - Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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