American Designs addresses three major literary critical issues: the hermeneutics of the novel genre; the intense importance of this genre for American literature; and the way James and Faulkner; by writing within hermeneutic traditions of the modern American novel, explore further than any other writers the particular functions of the novelistic designs they inherited and transformed.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman contends that in the late fiction of James and Faulkner the search for knowledge of the self and others is presented as a metafictive issue of power, authority, and...
American Designs addresses three major literary critical issues: the hermeneutics of the novel genre; the intense importance of this genre f...
A collection of essays which explore the cross cultural origins of the trickster in American literature. The trickster has appeared in such characters as Huckleberry Finn And Nanapush and can lead the way to the unconscious, the concealed, and the seemingly unattainable.
A collection of essays which explore the cross cultural origins of the trickster in American literature. The trickster has appeared in such characters...
