The New Romanticism: A Collection of Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780815335474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 334 str.

Eberhard Alsen

Opis

American novelists of the 20th century have rejected an objective perspective on the world in favour of one that resembles the transcendental and epistemological investigations by earlier novelists and poets. This text is an overview of this romantic trend in contemporary fiction. This volume includes three classic essays on romanticism by Saul Bellow, Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison as well as essays on the works of John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nobokov, Toni Morrison, John Hawkes, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Walker Percy, John Barth, Ralph Ellison and J.D. Salinger.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Preface, William E. Cain; Preface, Eberhard Alsen; Part 1 The New Romanticism; Chapter 1 Introduction, Eberhard Alsen; Part 2 Contemporary Novelists on Romantics and Romanticism; A World Too Much with Us (1975), Saul Bellow; Chapter 102 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? (1984), Thomas Pynchon; Chapter 103 Romancing the Shadow (1992), Toni Morrison; Part 3 Criticism on Contemporary Novelists; Chapter 104 The Romantic Style of Salinger’s “Seymour: An Introduction” (1963), John O. Lyons; Chapter 105 The New Romance (1972), Arthur Mizener; Chapter 106 Lancelot: Percy’s Romance (1983), Mark Johnson; Chapter 107 John Gardner’s “The King’s Indian” and the Romantic Tradition (1984), Gregory Morris; Chapter 108 Bellow and English Romanticism (1984), Allan Chavkin; Chapter 109 Hawthorne and O’Connor: A Literary Kinship (1989), Ronald Emerick; Chapter 110 The Other Ghost in Beloved: The Specter of The Scarlet Letter (1991), Jan Stryz; Chapter 111 Updike’s Scarlet Letter Trilogy: Recasting an American Myth (1992), James A. Schiff; Chapter 112 Ellison’s Invisible Man: Emersonianism Revised (1992), Kun Jong Lee; Chapter 113 Nabokov and Poe (1995), Dale E. Peterson; Part 4 Overviews; Chapter 114 All the New Vibrations: Romanticism in 20th-Century America (1969), Ronald L. Davis; Chapter 115 The Corpse of the Dragon: Notes on Postromantic Fiction (1975), Frank McConnell; Chapter 116 Hawthorne and the Sixties: Careening on the Utmost Verge (1985), Samuel Coale; Chapter 117 Realistic and Romantic Tendencies (1996), Eberhard Alsen; Part 5 Bibliography; Chapter 118 Bibliography, Saul Bellow;

O autorze

Eberhard Alsen is Professor of English at State University of New York at Courtland