American letters
By: Claude Richard ; translated with an afterword by Carol Mastrangelo Bové ; foreword by Marc Chénetier, Michel Gresset, and Philippe Jaworski.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism
Description: At his death in 1988, Claude Richard was one of the most active French scholars working at the confluence of American literary history and critical theory. His last writings, translated here for the first time, offer an incisive reading of American literature that finds Poe at its center and traces new lines of continuity between the works of the nineteenth century and those of contemporary writers such as Thomas Pynchon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-187) and index.