An examination of American literature and the American personality from the colonial period to the present day. Fieldler maintains that American literature is ...
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An examination of American literature and the American personality from the colonial period to the present day. Fieldler maintains that American literature is largely incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death.
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Description: A retrospective article on Leslie Fielder in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to this work as "one of the great, essential books on American Imagination--an accepted major work. " This groundbreaking critical tome, first published in...
"An absolute must read for all students of American literature. Fiedler's incites into the development of a truly "American" genre are critical for understanding the place of American literature in the history of world lit. Every professor of American literature I ever had was heavily inflenced by Fielder's ideas."
"Thought-provoking and worth reading, especially as I am currently planning some rereads of Hawthorne and Faulkner. I think his conclusions (or tone) can be a reach at times, though, which admittedly helps add to the interest of the book on occasion (I mean, I read good bits wishing I could argue with him about Faulkner, as my take on Faulkner's women, among various issues, is somewhat different).
This is also interesting simply as an illustration of changing tastes in literature. A lot of the contemporary and recent authors he writes about are largely forgotten or not read now, and far less likely to be studied in school than it appears was the case when the book was written (I mean people like Robert Penn Warren, who gets substantial discussion of books other than All the King's Men, and even Thomas Wolfe, as well as some more obscure names)."
"In a notorious essay, Leslie Fiedler contended that while European novelists such as Tolstoy and Flaubert were writing about adult heterosexual relationships, most of the classic American novels of the 19th century like Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Melville's Moby Dick were "boy's books" in which at their heart was a chaste homosexual bond (in Melville, there are multiple, interracial male pairings). The essay was entitled "Come Back to the Raft Agin, Huck Honey." In other essays, Fiedler prefigured cultural studies by writing about Superman and comic books, genre fiction and pop culture. This is literary critic as cultural provocateur, and Fiedler's major work will both enlighten and outrage. Of Love and Death in the American Novel, the New York Times wrote, "One of the great, essential works on the American imagination." This reader concurs."
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