{"product_id":"the-emblematic-novel-jon-woodson-9798392420179","title":"The Emblematic Novel: Esoteric Realism in the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Emblematic Novel\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the hidden system of alchemical emblems, Tarot cards, photographs, and paintings that are coded into Carl Van Vechten's novel \u003ci\u003eThe Blind Bow-Boy\u003c\/i\u003e. Chapter Two shows that Van Vechten's esoteric novel was the template for a large number of canonical modernist novels including works by Faulkner, Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee, Ralph Ellison, Raymond Chandler, John O'Hara, Thornton Wilder, Frank Yerby, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Thomas Wolfe, and many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChapter Three is a close reading of Nella Larsen's \u003ci\u003ePassing\u003c\/i\u003e that demonstrates its influence from Van Vechten and traces the system of Tarot cards, alchemical emblems, photographs, and paintings that make sense of its ambiguous surface text.\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four reassigns \u003ci\u003eMen, Marriage, and Me\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe template for the modernist memoir- to the authorship of Zora Neale Hurston. Like the Van Vechten novel, Hurston's memoir-novel is written in code and contains a hidden system of esoteric symbols. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Emblematic Novel\u003c\/i\u003e is an important intervention in the understanding of the modern novel. This reassessment is accomplished through factoring in major implications about a school of modernist writing that has until now remained out of sight. Given the poor understanding of a host of modernist writers, such as Nathaniel West, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and Ralph Ellison, the discovery of a linking commonality in the esoteric solves many of the interpretive mysteries surrounding these and other writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Emblematic Novel\u003c\/i\u003e contains a panoply of illustrations that relate to the surface narrative of the texts under discussion. Woodson's argument is grounded in the \"conscious discrepancies\" in the texts-intentional mistakes-that have remained beneath the notice of the literary scholars who have examined these texts. These intentional mistakes, along with the alchemical code that they point to, are convincingly brought to the surface through a detailed, irrefutable exposition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Emblematic Novel\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical tour de force that opens the door to modernism as an evocation of spiritual alchemy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Woodson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798392420179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Jon Woodson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800920600831,"sku":"9798392420179","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-emblematic-novel-jon-woodson-9798392420179","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}