Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville and Poe - Critical Essays in Honor of Darrel Abel - Hardcover

Thompson, G.R.; Lokke, Virgil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0911198601 ISBN 13: 9780911198607

Verlag: Purdue University Press, 1981

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Book by Thompson GR Lokke Editor Virgil

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Críticas:

"The essays in Ruined Eden of the Present are the product of mature and probing scholarship. Every student of the American Renaissance should read them." Poe Studies Association Newsletter "The editors of this festschrift for their colleague Darrel Abel must have planned long and shown some courage to achieve a much better than average level of quality as well as unity. Every contributor sticks to the writers promised in the subtitle, and it would be debatable to single out the best essay." American Literature

Reseña del editor:

A recurrent idea in Darrel Abel's criticism of the works of Hawthorne gives this volume its title. The idea of a fallen world and its potential for partial redemption through art and the art of criticism is a theme that weaves in and out of the sixteen essays. The volume as a whole displays an explicit and implicit concern with critical approaches and reflects an awareness of the fictiveness of critical resolutions in a world in which boundaries are constantly under challenge, for example, those which divide "textuality" from "contextuality." This collection of essays explores the problems the practical critic and teacher has had to face in the shifts in taste, assumptions, and methodology in the moves from moral and historical criticism to the "New Criticism," and to the newer linguistic and semiotic criticism.

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• Verlag: Purdue University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0911198601
• ISBN 13: 9780911198607
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 383
• Herausgeber: Lokke Virgil