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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Folks, Jeffrey Jay (1948-....)
Titre(s) : Heartland of the imagination [Texte imprimé] : conservative values in American literature from Poe to O'Connor to Haruf / Jeffrey J. Folks
Publication : Jefferson (N.C.) : McFarland & Company, c2012
Description matérielle : vii, 204 p. ; 23 cm
Comprend : Poe and The cogito ; Poe and Lindsay, literary outcasts ; Vachel Lindsay's covenant
with America ; Agee and Dostoyevsky : two writers possessed ; Flannery O'Connor's
conservatism : a reading of The violent bear it away ; Naipaul's turn in the American
south ; The fiction of Kent Haruf ; Epilogue: The dialect of the tribe.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and index
"This book focuses on works of conservative American writers and others who have written
of America. Beginning with the work of Poe, the book explores the traditionalist temper
in books by Lindsay, Dostoevsky, Hitchcock, Naipaul, and Haruf. Drawing on the theories
of Simpson, Kolakowski, Scruton, and Himmelfarb, among others, this text offers a
significant aspect of American culture"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine
Conservatisme et littérature
Écrivains américains -- Pensée politique et sociale
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780786459766 (softcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 078645976X (softcover) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42581260x
Notice n° :
FRBNF42581260
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
