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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Carpenter, Frederic Ives, 1903-1991. American literature and the dream. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1968, c1955] (OCoLC)590568437 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Frederic Ives Carpenter |
| OCLC Number: | 269235 |
| Description: | vi, 220 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Introduction -- The American dream -- pt. 2. The transcendental dream -- Emerson -- Bronson Alcott: genteel transcendentalist -- Walt Whitman's Eidolon -- pt. 3. The genteel tradition: a re-interpretation -- Scarlet A minus -- Melville and the men-of-war -- pt. 4. The pragmatic realization -- C.S. Peirce: pragmatic transcendentalist -- William James and Emerson -- Sinclair Lewis and the fortress of reality -- pt. 5. The romantic confusion: the devil in America -- The romantic tragedy of Eugene O'Neill -- Death comes for Robinson Jeffers -- pt. 6. Thomas Wolfe: the autobiography of an idea -- John Steinbeck: the philosophical Joads -- The time of William Saroyan's life -- Hemingway achieves the fifth dimension -- pt. 7. The good and the bad -- The logic of American literature. |
| Series Title: | Essay index reprint series. |
| Responsibility: | [by] Frederic I. Carpenter. |
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