American literature, American culture / [compiled by] Gordon Hutner.

Contributor(s):

Hutner, Gordon

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: x, 612 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0195085213 (alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

810.9 21

LOC classification:

PS 25 A512 1999

Online resources:

Contents:

I. Formations -- 1. "What Is an American?" / Jean de Crevecoeur -- 2. Toward a Definition of American Literature (selections) -- "To the Public" / Charles Brockden Brown -- Excerpt from North American Review / William Tudor -- "National Literature" / James Kirk Paulding -- "Marginalia" / Edgar Allan Poe -- "Americanism in Literature" / William Gilmore Simms -- 3. "American Literature" / Margaret Fuller -- 4. "The American Scholar" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- 5. "Nationality in Literature" / Cornelius Mathews -- 6. "The American Scholar" / Theodore Parker -- 7. prefaces / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- House of the Seven Gables -- Blithedale Romance -- Marble Faun -- 8. "Hawthorne and His Mosses" / Herman Melville -- 9. "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" / Frederick Douglass -- 10. "How Should Women Write?" / Mary E. Bryan -- 11. "Democratic Vistas" / Walt Whitman -- 12. From "Hawthorne" / Henry James -- 13. From Criticism and Fiction / William Dean Howells -- 14. "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" / Mark Twain -- 15. Great American Novel (selections) -- "The Great American Novel" / William De Forest -- "American Novels" / Thomas S. Perry -- "The American Novel" / Robert Herrick -- "The Great American Novel" / Edith Wharton -- II. Modern American Criticism, 1900-1945 -- 1. "The Sorrow Songs" / W.E.B. Du Bois -- 2. "Why Is American Literature Bourgeois?" / Gertrude Atherton -- 3. "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy" / George Santayana -- 4. "On Creating a Usable Past" / Van Wyck Brooks -- 5. "The Critic and American Life" / Irving Babbitt -- 6. "The American Novel" / H.L. Mencken -- 7. "The New Negro" / Alain Locke -- 8. "Proletarian Realism" / Mike Gold -- 9. "Reconstructed but Unregenerate" / John Crowe Ransom -- 10. From American Humor / Constance Rourke -- 11. "Characteristics of Negro Expression" / Zora Neale Hurston -- 12. "Literature as Equipment for Living" / Kenneth Burke -- 13. "The Forerunners" / J. Saunders Redding -- 14. "The Cult of Experience in American Writing" / Philip Rahv -- 15. "The Economy of the American Writer" / R.P. Blackmur -- III. Postwar Era, 1945-1970 -- 1. "The Responsibilities of the Critic" / F.O. Matthiessen -- 2. "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!" / Leslie Fiedler -- 3. "Reality in America" / Lionel Trilling -- 4. "Richard Wright's Blues" / Ralph Ellison -- 5. "Everybody's Protest Novel" / James Baldwin -- 6. "American Literature and the American Language" / T.S. Eliot -- 7. "The Myth of the Garden and Turner's Frontier Hypothesis" / Henry Nash Smith -- 8. "Errand into the Wilderness" / Perry Miller -- 9. "The Hero's Progress" / Americo Paredes -- 10. "Harriet Beecher Stowe" / Edmund Wilson -- 11. "Masscult and Midcult" / Dwight MacDonald -- 12. "The Jew as Modern American Writer" / Alfred Kazin -- 13. "Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson" / Adrienne Rich -- IV. Contemporaries, 1970-1998 -- 1. "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors" / Nina Baym -- 2. "A Modest Ethnic Proposal" / William Boelhower -- 3. "'But Is It Any Good?': The Institutionalization of Literary Value" / Jane Tompkins -- 4. "Writing, 'Race, ' and the Difference It Makes" / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- 5. "The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic" / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- 6. "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" / Hortense J. Spillers -- 7. "Hawthorne's A-Morality of Compromise" / Sacvan Bercovitch -- 8. "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature" / Toni Morrison -- 9. "The Vanishing American" / Walter Benn Michaels -- 10. "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" / Fredric Jameson -- 11. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" / Gloria Anzaldua -- 12. "American Literary Emergence as a Postcolonial Phenomenon" / Lawrence Buell.

Summary: "American Literature, American Culture is the first comprehensive anthology of American literary criticism to appear in many years and the first collection to bring together the tradition of American literary criticism as cultural critique. This unique anthology assembles reviews of early works, major critical essays, excerpts from landmark studies, and the most influential examples of the criticism practiced today. The selections address the dominant questions in the American literary tradition: What are the cultural responsibilities of the American writer? What are the characteristics of a national literature? Is a national literature even possible? How do gender and race affect the way we understand literature? What role does literature play in a democratic society?" "American Literature, American Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in American literature, criticism, and American studies. It also makes a useful supplementary text in upper-level courses in criticism."--Jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso)	PS 25 A512 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000127352

Includes bibliographical references (p. 610-612).

I. Formations --
1. "What Is an American?" / Jean de Crevecoeur --
2. Toward a Definition of American Literature (selections) --
"To the Public" / Charles Brockden Brown --
Excerpt from North American Review / William Tudor --
"National Literature" / James Kirk Paulding --
"Marginalia" / Edgar Allan Poe --
"Americanism in Literature" / William Gilmore Simms --
3. "American Literature" / Margaret Fuller --
4. "The American Scholar" / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
5. "Nationality in Literature" / Cornelius Mathews --
6. "The American Scholar" / Theodore Parker --
7. prefaces / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
House of the Seven Gables --
Blithedale Romance --
Marble Faun --
8. "Hawthorne and His Mosses" / Herman Melville --
9. "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" / Frederick Douglass --
10. "How Should Women Write?" / Mary E. Bryan --
11. "Democratic Vistas" / Walt Whitman --
12. From "Hawthorne" / Henry James --
13. From Criticism and Fiction / William Dean Howells --
14. "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" / Mark Twain --
15. Great American Novel (selections) --
"The Great American Novel" / William De Forest --
"American Novels" / Thomas S. Perry --
"The American Novel" / Robert Herrick --
"The Great American Novel" / Edith Wharton --
II. Modern American Criticism, 1900-1945 --
1. "The Sorrow Songs" / W.E.B. Du Bois --
2. "Why Is American Literature Bourgeois?" / Gertrude Atherton --
3. "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy" / George Santayana --
4. "On Creating a Usable Past" / Van Wyck Brooks --
5. "The Critic and American Life" / Irving Babbitt --
6. "The American Novel" / H.L. Mencken --
7. "The New Negro" / Alain Locke --
8. "Proletarian Realism" / Mike Gold --
9. "Reconstructed but Unregenerate" / John Crowe Ransom --
10. From American Humor / Constance Rourke --
11. "Characteristics of Negro Expression" / Zora Neale Hurston --
12. "Literature as Equipment for Living" / Kenneth Burke --
13. "The Forerunners" / J. Saunders Redding --
14. "The Cult of Experience in American Writing" / Philip Rahv --
15. "The Economy of the American Writer" / R.P. Blackmur --
III. Postwar Era, 1945-1970 --
1. "The Responsibilities of the Critic" / F.O. Matthiessen --
2. "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!" / Leslie Fiedler --
3. "Reality in America" / Lionel Trilling --
4. "Richard Wright's Blues" / Ralph Ellison --
5. "Everybody's Protest Novel" / James Baldwin --
6. "American Literature and the American Language" / T.S. Eliot --
7. "The Myth of the Garden and Turner's Frontier Hypothesis" / Henry Nash Smith --
8. "Errand into the Wilderness" / Perry Miller --
9. "The Hero's Progress" / Americo Paredes --
10. "Harriet Beecher Stowe" / Edmund Wilson --
11. "Masscult and Midcult" / Dwight MacDonald --
12. "The Jew as Modern American Writer" / Alfred Kazin --
13. "Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson" / Adrienne Rich --
IV. Contemporaries, 1970-1998 --
1. "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors" / Nina Baym --
2. "A Modest Ethnic Proposal" / William Boelhower --
3. "'But Is It Any Good?': The Institutionalization of Literary Value" / Jane Tompkins --
4. "Writing, 'Race, ' and the Difference It Makes" / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. --
5. "The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic" / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick --
6. "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" / Hortense J. Spillers --
7. "Hawthorne's A-Morality of Compromise" / Sacvan Bercovitch --
8. "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature" / Toni Morrison --
9. "The Vanishing American" / Walter Benn Michaels --
10. "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" / Fredric Jameson --
11. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" / Gloria Anzaldua --
12. "American Literary Emergence as a Postcolonial Phenomenon" / Lawrence Buell.

"American Literature, American Culture is the first comprehensive anthology of American literary criticism to appear in many years and the first collection to bring together the tradition of American literary criticism as cultural critique. This unique anthology assembles reviews of early works, major critical essays, excerpts from landmark studies, and the most influential examples of the criticism practiced today. The selections address the dominant questions in the American literary tradition: What are the cultural responsibilities of the American writer? What are the characteristics of a national literature? Is a national literature even possible? How do gender and race affect the way we understand literature? What role does literature play in a democratic society?" "American Literature, American Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in American literature, criticism, and American studies. It also makes a useful supplementary text in upper-level courses in criticism."--Jacket.

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