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Books speaking to books : a contextual approach to American fiction
- Title
- Books speaking to books : a contextual approach to American fiction / by William T. Stafford.
- Author
- Stafford, William T.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1981.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 165 p.; 21 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: listening.--A whale, an heiress, and a southern demigod: three symbolic Americas.--Benjy Compson, Jake Barnes, and Nick Carraway: replication in three "innocent" American narrators of the 1920s.--The obverse relation: some western flights eastward (in literature and film).--The black/white continuum: some recent examples in Bellow, Malamud, and Updike.--Three applications: Truth's ragged edges: Melville's loyalties in Billy Budd--the commitment of form in the digressions. "The birthplace": James's Fable for critics? Faulkner's revolt against the 1920s: parody and transcendence, continuation and innovation.--Afterword: Knower, doer, and sayer--the James family view of Emerson.
- Call Number
- JFD 81-4484
- ISBN
- 0807814695
- LCCN
- 80025892
- OCLC
- 6916166
- NYPG81-B5202
- Author
- Stafford, William T.
- Title
- Books speaking to books : a contextual approach to American fiction / by William T. Stafford.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1981.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 81-4484