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Vital Signs

Essays on American Literature and Criticism

Szerző: James W. Tuttleton

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Ivan R Dee, Inc

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James Tuttleton's literary writings in such magazines as the New Criterion, the American Scholar, an...

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Szerző

James W. Tuttleton

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

1996

oldal

383

EAN

9781566631006

ISBN

1566631009

Enbook ID

05082543

Kiadó

Ivan R Dee, Inc

Súly

662

Méretek

162 x 225 x 35

Teljes leírás

James Tuttleton's literary writings in such magazines as the New Criterion, the American Scholar, and the Yale Review have earned him a reputation as one of our most trenchant critics. Here he collects twenty essays derived from his long engagement with the masterworks of the American imagination. Discussions of Hawthorne and Emerson, Howells and James, Fuller and Chopin, and Fitzgerald and Anderson, among others, are counterpointed with an analysis of the effect of contemporary critical theory on the American canon. Mr. Tuttleton scrutinizes a century and a half of great American writing from the viewpoint of literature as an art rather than as a datum of "cultural studies" He is severe with those styles of criticism that in his view drain literature of its moral and social significance, or that manipulate literature to serve an ideological agenda. The essays in Vital Signs arise from a conviction that great literature is more than mere discourse or a semiotic freeplay of figurations. In Mr. Tuttleton's view, a great poem or novel is an ontological reality, has a living presence, and is a system of "vital signs" that, from generation to generation, illuminates the world and offers alternatives that might be our own.