After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore DreiserBucknell University Press, 1990 - 160 páginas The transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser. |
Contenido
| 13 | |
Living on the Edge of a World Willa Cathers Alien Frontiers and the Antagonism of Place | 36 |
The Exorcism of the Supernatural Natural and Social Alienation for Theodore Dreiser | 75 |
A New American Dream Dislocation as Reminiscent of a Century Past and Reorientation as Prophetic of the Modern World | 111 |
Notes | 128 |
Select Bibliography | 147 |
Index | 157 |
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After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa ... Conrad Eugene Ostwalt Vista de fragmentos - 1990 |
After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa ... Conrad Eugene Ostwalt Vista de fragmentos - 1990 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Alexandra Alfred Kazin alienation ambiguous Ameri American dream American space American Tragedy Ántonia appears approach Bulwark Cather and Dreiser Cather and Theodore Cather's characters Cather's fiction Clyde Clyde Griffiths Cowperwood cultural Daiches Darwin Darwinian world describes deterministic dislocation divine dominate dream of possibility Dreiser's fiction Dreiser's Novels early twentieth centuries Emerson existence experience fittest frontier Granville Hicks harmony hostile human relationships Ibid isolation Jennie Gerhardt Kazin land literary live meaning meaningful moral narrative natural and social natural environment natural realm natural space natural world naturalistic nineteenth century occurs philosophy physical pietistic pietistic naturalism pioneers prairie Professor's House Protestantism realistic reality reappropriation redefines redefinition of American religion and literature religious result romantic poets Rosicky sacred natural sacred world Schneider secular setting Sister Carrie social space social world society Solon Spencerian story struggle supernatural survival theme Theodore Dreiser ther's tion traditional transcendent transcendentalist University Press vision Willa Cather worldview York
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Página 45 - And yet I would rather have Emil grow up like that than like his two brothers. We pay a high rent, too, though we pay differently. We grow hard and heavy here. We don't move lightly and easily as you do, and our minds get stiff. If the world were no wider than my cornfields, if there were not something beside this, I wouldn't feel that it was much worth while to work. No, I would rather have Emil like you than like them. I felt that as soon as you came.
Página 21 - The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Página 125 - Externalization is the ongoing outpouring of human being into the world, both in the physical and the mental activity of men. Objectivation is the attainment by the products of this activity (again both physical and mental) of a reality that confronts its original producers as a facticity external to and other than themselves.
Página 14 - So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us, as His...
Página 14 - England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us...
Página 21 - Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Página 99 - In this love and unity with all nature, as she now sensed, there was nothing fitful or changing or disappointing — nothing that glowed one minute and was gone the next. This love was rather as constant as nature itself, everywhere the same, in sunshine or in darkness, the filtered splendor of the dawn, the seeded beauty of the night.
Página 71 - Every day he said to himself that he must get out to see that family that had lost their father. One soft, warm moonlight night in early summer he started for the farm. His mind was on other things, and not until his road ran by the graveyard did he realize that Rosicky wasn't over there on the hill where the red lamplight shone, but here, in the moonlight. He stopped his car, shut off the engine, and sat there for a while.
Página 136 - To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidences of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel differently about the ground you walk over every day," says Tom Outland, in The Professor's House.