Heartland of the imagination: conservative values in American literature from Poe to O'Connor to Haruf

"This book focuses on works of conservative American writers and others who have written of America. Beginning with the work of Poe, the book explores the traditionalist temper in books by Lindsay, Dostoevsky, Hitchcock, Naipaul, and Haruf. Drawing on the theories of Simpson, Kolakowski, Scruto...

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1. Verfasser: Folks, Jeffrey J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jefferson, NC [u.a.] McFarland 2012
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Zusammenfassung:"This book focuses on works of conservative American writers and others who have written of America. Beginning with the work of Poe, the book explores the traditionalist temper in books by Lindsay, Dostoevsky, Hitchcock, Naipaul, and Haruf. Drawing on the theories of Simpson, Kolakowski, Scruton, and Himmelfarb, among others, this text offers a significant aspect of American culture"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 195 - 200) and index
Poe and The cogito -- Poe and Lindsay, literary outcasts -- Vachel Lindsay's covenant with America -- Agee and Dostoyevsky: two writers possessed -- Flannery O'Connor's conservatism: a reading of The violent bear it away -- Naipaul's turn in the American south -- The fiction of Kent Haruf -- Epilogue: The dialect of the tribe
Beschreibung:VII, 204 S.
ISBN:9780786459766

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