Title: Occidental ideographs : image, sequence, and literary history /
Authors: Rogers, Franklin R.; Rogers, Mary Ann.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses,
Year: 1991
Subjects: American fiction History and criticism; Art and literature United States.; Figures of speech.
Contents: The historicity of literary art -- Paths through the wilderness: Cooper, The deerslayer -- Lost in a moral wilderness: Hawthorne, The scarlet letter -- Lighting out for the territory: Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Retreat from the garden: James, The portrait of a lady -- Through the last door: Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! -- A wall, a flight of stairs, an open road: McCullers, The heart is a lonely hunter -- The magic door: A radical ideograph -- Two variations -- Return to the radical -- Space-time in the American imagination.