Essays on American literature and ideas
By: Manfred Pütz.
Series: Albion books -- 6
Publisher: Institutul European
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Iași [Romania]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; United States -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dramatic elements and literary mediation in the works of Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur; title: Emerson and Kant; title: Inward versus outward expansion, Thoreau's critique of expansionist ideology; title: Dissenting voices of consent, Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson on the Fourth of July; title: The narrator as audience, Ishmael as reader and critic in Moby-Dick; title: Mark Twain and the idea of American superiority at the end of the nineteenth century; title: Imagination and definition, American novels of the Sixties; title: Democratic versus autocratic autobiography : George McGovern's Grassroots versus Richard Nixon's Memoirs; title: The art of the acronym in Thomas Pynchon; title: Paul de Man and the postmodern myth of Nietzche's deconstruction of causality.