Critical Approaches to American Literature: Walt Whitman to William FaulknerCrowell, 1965 - American literature |
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... James's plots . But such matters are never treated for their own value , as they would be by a naturalist . James has so little concern for natural evil that he very often makes death the result of moral rather than of natural evil — as ...
... James's plots . But such matters are never treated for their own value , as they would be by a naturalist . James has so little concern for natural evil that he very often makes death the result of moral rather than of natural evil — as ...
Page 141
... James's international fiction rest , as some critics have as- serted , on a distinction between moral and aesthetic values , between " cultural " inferiority but " moral " superiority in America and their opposites in Europe . 13 In ...
... James's international fiction rest , as some critics have as- serted , on a distinction between moral and aesthetic values , between " cultural " inferiority but " moral " superiority in America and their opposites in Europe . 13 In ...
Page 156
... James's theme - an " exquisite " question , as he put it includes considerably " more than that . ” It should be evident that , were the central meaning of " The Real Thing " no more than an esthetic cliché , the question that struck ...
... James's theme - an " exquisite " question , as he put it includes considerably " more than that . ” It should be evident that , were the central meaning of " The Real Thing " no more than an esthetic cliché , the question that struck ...
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Whitman I | 14 |
Richard P Adams Whitmans Lilacs and the Tradition | 28 |
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Adam American girl American Literature artist Barnes becomes beginning bird Brett character Clemens Cohn conscience consciousness Cowperwood Crane critics culture Daisy dead death dramatic Dreiser emotion Ernest Hemingway evil experience Ezra Pound fact Faulkner feel Fiction finally Fitzgerald freedom Gatsby Hadleyburg Hemingway Hemingway's Henry James hero Huck and Jim Huck's Huckleberry Finn human ideas imagination innocence Isabel James's kind Leaves of Grass Lilacs lines literary living man's Marcher Mark Twain Mauberley McCaslin meaning mind Modern moral narrator nature Negro Nick Nick Adams novel passage poem poet poetry point of view raft reader Reprinted Robert Frost romantic says Scott Fitzgerald seems sense social society song spirit Stephen Crane story symbol T. S. Eliot tells theme things thought tion Tom's tradition tragic unity Wallace Stevens Walt Whitman Waste Land Whitman wilderness William Faulkner words writing York