Eric Sundquist takes four representative writers--James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville--and considers the way in which each grapples with the crucial issues of genealogy and authority in his works. From all four a common pattern emerges: the desire to revolt against the past is countered by the need to invoke or even repeat it. Sundquist's approach to the texts is psychoanalytic, but he does not attempt a clinical dissection of each writer; rather, he determines how personal crisis became material for engaging with larger questions of social and literary crisis.
| Autorius: | Eric J Sundquist |
| Leidėjas: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2019 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 240 |
| ISBN-10: | 1421430606 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781421430607 |
| Formatas: | Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Literature: history and criticism |
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