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发表于2024-11-23
The American Novel and Its Tradition pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
"Since the earliest days," writes Richard Chase in this classic study, "the American novel, in its most original and characteristic form, has worked out its destiny and defined itself by incorporating an element of romance." In his detailed study of works by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, Frank Norris, George Washington Cable, William Dean Howells, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, Chase identifies and traces this tradition through two centuries of American literature.</P>
The best novelists, he argues, have found uses for romance beyond the escapism, fantasy, and sentimentality often associated with it. Through romance, these writers mirror the extremes of American culture -- the Puritan melodrama of good and evil, or the pastoral idyll inspired by the American wilderness.</P>
寫得就還挺平易近人的。對美國這種獨特的romance-novel的解讀挺到位,尤其第一章與英國小說的區分。就是在講Billy Budd時,作者提齣這個小說political的成分遠大於religious,但反手又在彆的地方寫瞭一篇名為The Rite of Sacrament的文章來解讀這個小說,不知他到底是怎麼想的。
評分選擇感興趣的部分讀瞭,超好的一本書
評分選擇感興趣的部分讀瞭,超好的一本書
評分跟Leavis掐架好好玩,硬說美國小說能超過歐洲,其浪漫傳統也經久不衰。Henry James重視人物塑造勝過情節,就是浪漫傳奇傳統的體現。但他同時強調小說的道德使命,這就又迴到瞭現實主義傳統上。不過Chase還是不得不承認,美國的social scene比歐洲無聊多瞭,因此風俗小說很難寫得有趣。
評分選擇感興趣的部分讀瞭,超好的一本書
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The American Novel and Its Tradition pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024