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God & the American Writer - Hardcover

Kazin, Alfred

 
9780394549682: God & the American Writer
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394549686 ISBN 13: 9780394549682
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

The author of On Native Grounds sheds new light on the meaning of God in the life and works of American writers, from the New England Calvinists, through the Civil War, to the novels of William Faulkner. 20,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alfred Kazin was born in Brooklyn in 1915. His first book of criticism, On Native Grounds (1942), was a groundbreaking study of American literature that changed radically our way of looking at it, and established him overnight as a major figure. In a series of books of his own since then, and in many critically edited texts of classic American literary works, he has established himself as our preeminent man of letters. He has taught widely at Harvard, Smith, Amherst, Hunter College, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and elsewhere. In 1996 he received from the Truman Capote Literary Trust its first Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Criticism (in memory of Newton Arvin). He lives in New York City.

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American Writer does more to illuminate the fundamental purposes and motivations of our greatest writers from Hawthorne to Faulkner than any study I have read in the past fifty-five years--that is, since the same author's On Native Grounds. <br>--Louis S. Auchincloss<br><br>This is the culminating work of the finest living critic of American literature. Alfred Kazin brings a lifetime of thought and reading to the triumphant elucidation of his fascinating and slippery subjects: what the meaning of God has been for American writers, and how those writers, from the New England Calvinists to William Faulkner, have expressed it. In a series of trenchant critical studies of writers as divergent as Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Lincoln, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, William James, Eliot, Frost, and Faulkner, Kazin gives a profound sense of each, and his quotations from their works are artfully chosen to pursue the main theme. The centerpiece of the book is the reflection in American writing

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Verlag
Alfred A. Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0394549686
ISBN 13 
9780394549682
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Knopf
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