Inbunden, Engelska, 1981

Ruined Eden of the Present

Hawthorne, Melville and Poe - Critical Essays in Honor of Darrel Abel

Av G.R. Thompson, Virgil Lokke, Virgil Lokke

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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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Utgivningsdatum: 1981-12-31
Mått: 154 x 231 x 33 mm
Vikt: 853 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 383
Förlag: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9780911198607

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Virgil L. Lokke is professor emeritus of English at Purdue University. On Fulbright appointments, he has taught at major universities in Norway and Finland, where he received awards for excellence in teaching. G. R Thompson is an English professor at Purdue University.

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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"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

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