Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men: Essays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men: Essays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Book

An examination of the relationship of the American writer to his land and language--to the "scene" and the "sign", to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men.Read More

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    This book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men. Among the questions considered in the first section of the book are how does American Romantic writing differ from European; what are the peculiar problems faced by the American artist, and what roles does he adopt to tackle them; what kind of writing results when authors as different as Henry Adams and Mark Twain lament the vanishing of an earlier America, or when Adams and Henry James review their complex relationship to their homeland, or when W. D. Howells and Stephen Crane seek to define their themes in a specifically American setting. The second section of the book examines similar concerns in a number of contemporary writers, notably Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, John DeLillo, and William Gass.

  • 0521311551
  • 9780521311557
  • Tony Tanner
  • 25 August 1989
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
  • New Ed
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