The American Classics: A Personal EssayYale University Press, 1 de out. de 2008 - 304 páginas How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a “classic”? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this provocative new book Denis Donoghue essays to answer these questions. He presents his own short list of “relative” classics--works whose appeal may not be universal but which nonetheless have occupied an important place in our culture for more than a century. These books have survived the abuses of time—neglect, contempt, indifference, willful readings, excesses of praise, and hyperbole. |
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... Leavis was a canonist in Revaluation ; New Bearings in English Poetry ; D. H. Lawrence , Novelist ; The Living Principle ; and Anna Karenina and Other Essays . He wanted readers to approach modern poetry with Eliot and Pound in view as ...
... Leavis , Empson , Winters , Black- mur , and Burke were the critics who defined the context in which I first read the American classics . That their literary criticism has been forgotten is not my fault . The period of criticism from ...
... of the New Criticism , which I thought of as founded on Coleridge and Eliot and stretching its wings in the work of I. A. Richards , William Empson , John Crowe Ransom , F. R. Leavis , Cleanth Brooks , 61 Moby - Dick.
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3 The Scarlet Letter | 101 |
4 Walden | 137 |
5 Leaves of Grass | 177 |
6 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 217 |
Afterword | 251 |
Notes | 263 |
Acknowledgment | 281 |
Index | 283 |