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Title: Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence ISBN: 0-14-018377-9 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: American Genius Loci
Comment: Useful book to understand America.
Terrific.
And there's more to come....
Rating: 5
Summary: Pharisee bashing
Comment: Excellent book. Lawrence is the only writer I know of who was able to trace the priggish type of American back to Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was a great man, but one of his more regrettable legacies appears in the modern WASP holier-than-thou type, the type that thinks it's inherently immoral to stay up late, and inherently moral to be a non-smoker. Take a close look at his interests and you'll see that it's to his advantage to preach what is, basically, servility. The rest of us Americans can't stand him (I'm convinced that Al Gore lost the election because he embodies this type), but his belief in his own piety remains unshaken to this day. Well, Lawrence gives him a perfectly-placed kick: check it out.
All of these essays are thoughtful, funny, and insightful. Lawrence has a unique way of grasping the undercurrents of works of fiction, and many of his most surprising assertions ring true upon reflection.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lawrence's intrepetation of classic American literature....
Comment: This book is literary criticism about some of America's most famous writers. Basically, it is a "Lawrencian" reading of classics.
D.H. Lawrence comments on Benjamin Franklin, Melville, Hawthorne, Dana, Fenimore Cooper, Poe, Whitman, and de Crevecoeur. In doing so, he is trying to get a picture of what America is and what it is trying to do. Although he mentions his interest in some, all fall short of the mark of creating a new identity for America.
If you have ever read notes by Lawrence on some of his novels (like "Lady Chatterley's Lover"), you will see the repeat of a lot of ideas and language. This was written later in his life, so it does make sense that some of his ideas of the blood-relationship would come again.
I would not recommend this book for people trying to understand American writing (except maybe to use this as contrast), but I would highly recommend this for anyone studying D.H. Lawrence. This will give you another perspective (aside from his fiction).
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Title: Essays of E. B. White by E. B. White ISBN: 0060932236 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman by Francis Otto Matthiessen ISBN: 019500759X Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: December, 1968 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: The American Novel and Its Tradition by Richard Volney Chase ISBN: 080182303X Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1980 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie Fiedler, Charles Harris ISBN: 1564781631 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins ISBN: 0140187812 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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