| Description |
xi, 464 pages. |
| Series |
Critical cosmos
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Critical cosmos series.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 437-447. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Convention in the fiction of Edith Wharton / Mary Suzanne Schriber -- Dreiser's trilogy and the dilemma of determinism / John J. Conder -- Modernism : the case of Willa Cather / Phyllis Rose -- Toward the outside : the quest for discontinuity in Gertrude Stein's The making of Americans / Clive Bush -- Sherwood Anderson : American mythopoeist / Benjamin T. Spencer -- Sinclair Lewis and the implied America / James Lea -- Negatives of hope : a reading of Katherine Anne Porter / Joseph Wiesenfarth -- Personal narrators playing God and man : Henry Miller's Henry Miller / Alan Warren Friedman -- 'Dressing the unknowable in the garments of the known' : the style of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Carolyn Allen -- Untroubled voice : call and response in Jean Toomer's Cane / Barbara E. Bowen -- Dos Passos's U.S.A. : chronicle and performance / Charles Marz -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : the myth of Gatsby / Bruce Michelson -- The aesthetic of forbearance : Fitzgerald's Tender is the night / Maria DiBattista -- Fitzgerald : the tissue of style / Donald Monk -- Faulkner on time and history / Cleanth Brooks -- Literary self-criticism : Faulkner in fiction on fiction / James G. Watson -- The spectral road : metaphors of transference in Faulkner's As I lay dying / Patrick O'Donnell -- Hemingway : valor against the void / Ihab Hassan -- Ernest Hemingway : the meaning of style / John Graham -- Human time in Hemingway's fiction / Wesley A. Kort -- Why you can't go home again : Thomas Wolfe and 'The escapes of time and memory' / Morris Beja -- Steinbeck, the people, and the party / Sylvia Jenkins Cook -- Metaphor, metonymy, and voice in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Barbara Johnson -- A surfeit of commodities : the novels of Nathanael West / Jonahtan Raban -- I thought I knew these people : Richard Wright and the Afro-American literary tradition / Robert B. Stepto -- The vision of Eudora Welty / Ruth M. Vande Kieft. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
0877549621 alkaline paper $39.95 |
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