Books Speaking to Books: A Contextual Approach to American Fiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807897850)

Stafford introduces the rich interpretive possibilities in a contextual analysis of literature. He finds in Moby Dick, The Wings of the Dove, and Absalom, Absalom! three symbolic Americas linked through images of whiteness that are collectively prophetic. Three novels of the 1920s (by Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald) are linked by themes of innocence; three of the 1970s (by Bellows, Malamud, and Updike), by black-white pairs. His flexible method also examines film.

Originally published in 1981.

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Author: William T. Stafford
ISBN-10: 080789785X
ISBN-13: 9780807897850
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.41d