The Pusher And The Sufferer
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The Pusher and the Sufferer
Author | : Suzanne Stein |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135724016 |
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Explores the nature of Melville's relations to his reader in Moby Dick, arguing that Melville and his narrator Ishmael are so dazzled, so completely seduced by the Ahab's charismatic charm that they, along with most readers and critics, are unable to see Ahab's character clearly confusing his demonism for tragic heroism.
All the Devils Are Here
Author | : David Greven |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2024-04-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813951034 |
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The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect not just an intertextual relationship between American Romanticism and the English tradition but also an ongoing engagement with gender and sexual politics. Greven limns the effect of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing on Hawthorne’s exploration of patriarchy, and he shows how misogyny in King Lear informed Melville’s evocation of “the step-mother world” of orphaned men in Moby-Dick. Throughout, Greven focuses particularly on male authors’ treatment of femininity, arguing that the figure of woman functions for them as a multivalent signifier for artistic expression. Ultimately, Greven demonstrates the ambitions of these writers to comment on the history of the Western tradition and the future of art from their unique positions as Americans.
Joycean Frames
Author | : Thomas Burkdall |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2018-02-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136712180 |
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Employing concepts from film theory, this much-needed study explores in-depth the "cinematic" quality of James Joyce's fiction from Dubliners to Finnegan's Wake.
The Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson s Battle Poetry
Author | : Timothy J. Lovelace |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135886004 |
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Many readers are aware of Alfred Tennyson's treatment of legendary battles in such poems as Boadicea, The Revenge, Battle of Brunanburh, and Achilles over the Trench. Yet among Tennyson's most neglected works are his first battle poems, pieces that reflect the poet's immersion in the literature of the heroic age. J. Timothy Lovelace argues that Tennyson's war poems reflect image patterns of the Illiad and Aeneid , and reinvigorate the heroic ethos that informs these and other ancient texts. Highlighting the heroic aspects of Maud and the Idylls of the King , this book shows that Tennyson's early grounding in the Homeric tradition greatly influenced his later, celebrated work on martial subjects.
This Composite Voice
Author | : Mark A. Bauer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2004-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135888039 |
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Readers of James Merrill's poetry have long noted affinities and contrasts between Merrill and Yeats. This Composite Voice is the first in depth examination of the extensive history and particularly vexed nature of this lifelong poetic relationship. It draws on little-known biographical material, uncollected poems, manuscript variants, and annotations found in Merrill's copies of Yeats poems, essays, and A Vision , as well as a close examination of Merrill's better-known writing, to establish the many ways in which Merrill contends with the older poet's haunting personality and poetic accomplishment.
Technique and Sensibility in the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver
Author | : Arthur F. Bethea |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136544712 |
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A comprehensive examination of the fiction and poetry of Raymond Carver.
Manhood and the American Renaissance
Author | : David Leverenz |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501744143 |
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In the view of David Leverenz, such nineteenth-century American male writers as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were influenced more profoundly by the popular model of the entrepreneurial "man of force" than they were by their literary precursors and contemporaries. Drawing on the insights of feminist theory, gender studies, psychoanalytical criticism, and social history, Manhood and the American Renaissance demonstrates that gender pressures and class conflicts played as critical a role in literary creation for the male writers of nineteenth-century America as they did for the women writers. Leverenz interprets male American authors in terms of three major ideologies of manhood linked to the social classes in the Northeast-patrician, artisan, and entrepreneurial. He asserts that the older ideologies of patrician gentility and of artisan independence were being challenged from 1820 to 1860 by the new middle-class ideology of competitive individualism. The male writers of the American Renaissance, patrician almost without exception in their backgrounds and self-expectations, were fascinated yet horrified by the aggressive materialism and the rivalry for dominance they witnessed in the undeferential "new men." In close readings of the works both of well-known male literary figures and of then popular authors such as Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Francis Parkman, Leverenz discovers a repressed center of manhood beset by fears of humiliation and masochistic fantasies. He discerns different patterns in the works of Whitman, with his artisan's background, and Frederick Douglass, who rose from artisan freedom to entrepreneurial power. Emphasizing the interplay of class and gender, Leverenz also considers how women viewed manhood. He concludes that male writers portrayed manhood as a rivalry for dominance, but contemporary female writers saw it as patriarchy. Two chapters contrast the work of the genteel writers Sarah Hale and Caroline Kirkland with the evangelical works of Susan Warner and Harriet Beecher Stowe. A bold and imaginative work, Manhood and the American Renaissance will enlighten and inspire controversy among all students of American literature, nineteenth-century American history, and the relation of gender and literature.
Critical Companion to Herman Melville
Author | : Carl Edmund Rollyson,Lisa Olson Paddock,April Gentry |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9781438108476 |
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Critical Companion to Herman Melville examines the life and work of a writer who spent much of his career in obscurity.