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- Author: Edgar Dryden
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 1421431122
- ISBN-13: 9781421431123
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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Originally published in 1988. Edgar Dryden challenges recent criticism that has tended to discredit--or at least devalue--the importance of "romance" as a thematic and generic category of American fiction. In The Form of American Romance, he examines its evolution and meaning through readings of five exemplary texts: Hawthorne's Marble Faun, Melville's Pierre, James's Portrait of a Lady, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and Barth's Letters. Each of these novels treats the problems of reading and writing in a self-referential way that reflects on the questions they dramatize, and Dryden has chosen each with the others in mind. Taken together, they chart a line of development with representative examples of what literary history calls romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism, and thus they suggest a certain story about the continuity of the American novel.
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- Author: Edgar Dryden
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 1421431122
- ISBN-13: 9781421431123
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
Originally published in 1988. Edgar Dryden challenges recent criticism that has tended to discredit--or at least devalue--the importance of "romance" as a thematic and generic category of American fiction. In The Form of American Romance, he examines its evolution and meaning through readings of five exemplary texts: Hawthorne's Marble Faun, Melville's Pierre, James's Portrait of a Lady, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and Barth's Letters. Each of these novels treats the problems of reading and writing in a self-referential way that reflects on the questions they dramatize, and Dryden has chosen each with the others in mind. Taken together, they chart a line of development with representative examples of what literary history calls romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism, and thus they suggest a certain story about the continuity of the American novel.
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