American Trajectories : Authors and Readings, 1790-1970 /
Berthoff, Warner
American Trajectories : Authors and Readings, 1790-1970 / Warner Berthoff. - 1 online resource (200 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I -- 1. Continuity in Discontinuity: Literature in the American Situation -- PART II -- 2. "The People's Author": Attempting to Find Mr. Mark Twain -- 3. Mark Twain Emily Dickinson: The Community of the Poem -- 4. Adventures of the Young Man: Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn -- 5. The Scandal of Kate Chopin -- 6. O. Henry: His Life and Afterlife -- 7. Modem Instances: Brooks, Mumford, Dreiser The Mutual Admiration Pact of Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford -- 8. "The Flight of the Rocket" and "The Last Good Country": Fitzgerald and Hemingway in the 1920s, and After -- 9. 1920s, and After Pay Day: The Case of Nathan Asch -- 10. "Everything Is All Right and Difficult": The Poems of Frank O'Hara -- 11. Life "Upstate": Edmund Wilson's American Memoir -- PART III -- 12. Culture and Consciousness, 1860-1915: The Onset of the Modem -- Permissions -- Index
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In American Trajectories Warner Berthoff argues that even in the broadest cultural and historical perspective, imaginative literature (like all the arts) is a matter of individual signatures and differences. He also puts forth that there are recognizable patterns and continuities marking off what is distinctively American, what both reflects and speaks for a shared national experience. Discussions of Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, and Edmund Wilson focus on the provenance and central character of writing by mainstream figures in our literary past. The essays on Brockden Brown, Nathan Asch, O. Henry, Frank O'Hara, Lewis Mumford, and Van Wyck Brooks highlight marginal, neglected, forgotten, or not yet fully acknowledged contributors to American writing.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271076782
10.1515/9780271076782 doi
American literature--History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
PS121 / .B52 1994
810.9
American Trajectories : Authors and Readings, 1790-1970 / Warner Berthoff. - 1 online resource (200 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I -- 1. Continuity in Discontinuity: Literature in the American Situation -- PART II -- 2. "The People's Author": Attempting to Find Mr. Mark Twain -- 3. Mark Twain Emily Dickinson: The Community of the Poem -- 4. Adventures of the Young Man: Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn -- 5. The Scandal of Kate Chopin -- 6. O. Henry: His Life and Afterlife -- 7. Modem Instances: Brooks, Mumford, Dreiser The Mutual Admiration Pact of Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford -- 8. "The Flight of the Rocket" and "The Last Good Country": Fitzgerald and Hemingway in the 1920s, and After -- 9. 1920s, and After Pay Day: The Case of Nathan Asch -- 10. "Everything Is All Right and Difficult": The Poems of Frank O'Hara -- 11. Life "Upstate": Edmund Wilson's American Memoir -- PART III -- 12. Culture and Consciousness, 1860-1915: The Onset of the Modem -- Permissions -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In American Trajectories Warner Berthoff argues that even in the broadest cultural and historical perspective, imaginative literature (like all the arts) is a matter of individual signatures and differences. He also puts forth that there are recognizable patterns and continuities marking off what is distinctively American, what both reflects and speaks for a shared national experience. Discussions of Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, and Edmund Wilson focus on the provenance and central character of writing by mainstream figures in our literary past. The essays on Brockden Brown, Nathan Asch, O. Henry, Frank O'Hara, Lewis Mumford, and Van Wyck Brooks highlight marginal, neglected, forgotten, or not yet fully acknowledged contributors to American writing.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271076782
10.1515/9780271076782 doi
American literature--History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
PS121 / .B52 1994
810.9