| Description |
386 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
A Galaxy book, GB26 |
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Galaxy book ; GB26
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| Contents |
The scarlet letter / Hyatt Howe Waggoner -- Hawthorne as poet / Q.D. Lewis -- A key to The house of Usher / Darrel Abel -- The tale as allegory / Edward H. Davidson -- Seven Moby-Dicks / John Parke -- Melville as symbolist / R.W. Short -- From Edwards to Emerson / Perry Miller -- Emerson and the organic metaphor / Richard P. Adams -- Emerson's tragic sense / Stephen E. Whicher -- Resolution at Walden / Sherman Paul -- "One's self I sing" / Richard Chase -- The musical development of symbols : Whitman / Calvin S. Brown -- Emily Dickinson / Allen Tate -- Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn / Leo Marx -- Remarks on the sad initiation of Huckleberry Finn / James M. Cox -- On the portrait of a lady / Dorothy Van Ghent -- Principles and method in the later works of Henry James / Dorothea Krook -- Reality in America / Lionel Trilling -- Hemingway's ambiguity : symbolism and irony / E.M. Halliday -- No beginning and no end : Hemingway and death / Frederick J. Hoffman -- The hero in the new world : William Faulkner's The bear / R.W.B. Lewis -- The stillness of light in August / Alfred Kazin -- The poet as person / Roy Harvey Pearce |
| Summary |
This is a collection of interpretive essays on major works, major writers, and a few major strains of American literature. It is designed to serve the student and the inquiring reader as a running commentary on the basic texts |
| Notes |
"A Galaxy book" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature.
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| Author |
Brodtkorb, Paul, editor
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Feidelson, Charles, editor
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| LC no. |
59009818 |
| ISBN |
0195006844 |
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9780195006841 |
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