| The American Writer and the European Tradition Contributor(s): Denny, Margaret (Editor), Gilman, William H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0816657416 ISBN-13: 9780816657414 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $56.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1950 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: In a series of perceptive essays by twelve scholars this volume brings a fresh viewpoint to the study of American literature. From the colonial gentlemen-scholars to contemporary poets and novelists, the American writer is seen in relation to the cultural influences that flowed from Europe to America, intermingled with native tendencies, and then flowed from America to Europe. Three themes bind the essays together: What was the American writer's original heritage of European ideas? What ideas, moods, manners in American writers were indigenous, or mostly so, to America? And finally, what has been the influence of American letters abroad? |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Series: Minnesota Archive Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The American Writer and the European Tradition was first published in 1950. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In a series of perceptive essays by twelve scholars this volume brings a fresh viewpoint to the study of American literature. From the colonial gentlemen-scholars to contemporary poets and novelists, the American writer is seen in relation to the cultural influences that flowed from Europe to America, intermingled with native tendencies, and then flowed from America to Europe. Three themes bind the essays together: What was the American writer's original heritage of European ideas? What ideas, moods, manners in American writers were indigenous, or mostly so, to America? And finally, what has been the influence of American letters abroad? |