The Diagonal Line: Separation and Reparation in American LiteratureSusquehanna University Press, 1984 - 190 Seiten Suggests that the understanding of American literature can be expanded through an examination of the universal symbolic pattern that underlies the Adamic myth -- the pattern of separation from and reparation with the boundless. |
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Nomos and the Genesis of America | 28 |
A Design of Darkness to Appall | 55 |
Urheberrecht | |
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The Diagonal Line: Separation and Reparation in American Literature August J. Nigro Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1984 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Ahab American attempt becomes begins body Books Burden calls character church circle comes communion Complete concentration connection consciousness consequently continues criticism cultural dead death dialectic Dickinson Dimmesdale division dream effective Eliot Emerson encounter England evoke existence experience fall father feels fiction final finds fire Gatsby Hawthorne hero Hester House Huck Huck's human identity imagination independence individual initiation integration interpretation invisible ironically James John language letter light literature Little living London major manifestation meaning metaphor mind Moreover myth narrator nature novel once original passage past pattern person physical poem poet poetry political possible Press Puritan rationalization realize reparation reprint result seek seems sense separation severance significant social society Stevens Strether suggests symbolic things tion tradition trans turn understanding University University Press variation whole Wilson withdrawal writes York
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