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Tag: American Literature

165. (Henry James)

The post below I now see is muddled. Please see post 167 for a clearer statement. I detect in Nelson … More

American Literature, Henry James, Nelson Goodman, philosophy

164. (Herman Melville)

When T.S. Eliot characterized that peculiar mental life we and he call wit, he had in mind a metaphysical poet … More

American Literature, herman melville, moby-dick, the novel, wit

163. (William Gaddis)

“So listen I got this neat idea hey, you listening? Hey? You listening . . .?” Thus ends J R.  The … More

American Literature, Charles Dickens, the novel, William Gaddis

161. (William Gaddis)

Though The Recognitions may have overwhelmed more powerfully, submerging and clinging with an undercurrent, JR (so far; nearing a half-way … More

American Literature, Dialogue, Realism, the novel, William Gaddis

160. (William Gaddis)

Charles Dickens appears as a character in Gaddis’ The Recognitions, published in 1955, and it is hard not to believe that … More

American Literature, Charles Dickens, the novel, Victorian Literature, William Gaddis

159. (William Gaddis)

T.S. Eliot’s claim that Henry James had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it might be misunderstood … More

American Literature, Realism, the novel, William Gaddis

158. (George Eliot)

Six, and possibly seven, models were available for the realist novel in the nineteenth century. First, the novel of social … More

American Literature, Dickens, George Eliot, Realism, the Historical Novel, the novel, Victorian Novel

152. (Wallace Stevens)

When you start out with a feeling of alienation—from an unspoken, blank, or meaningless past—from a mass of others, or … More

American Literature, American poetry, Marius Bewley, Politics and Poetry, R.P. Blackmur, Wallace Stevens

145. (James Baldwin)

The thought of there being a distinct American problem, to be worked out by authors in the United States, has … More

American Literature, Film, James Baldwin

114. (Joy Williams)

When a short story is successful, a reader ends it feeling certain that it could not have been a novel … More

American Literature, Flannery O'Connor, Joy Williams, Short Story

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