The heroic ideal in American literature, [by] Theodore L. Gross

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Label

The heroic ideal in American literature, [by] Theodore L. Gross

Statement of responsibility

[by] Theodore L. Gross

Instantiates

• The heroic ideal in American literature

Publication

• New York, Free Press, 1971

Contents

• The Southern hero:
• The code of Southern heroism
• William Gilmore Simms and the antebellum writers
• Thomas Nelson Page and the postbellum writers
• Twentieth-century criticism and literature
• 3.
• The Black hero:
• The idealism of Negro literature
• The two traditions: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
• The Negro awakening: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher, and others
• 1.
• The major authors: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin
• Contemporary Negro literature
• 4.
• The disenchanted hero:
• Introductory: the twentieth century
• Ernest Hemingway: the renunciation of America
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: the hero in retrospect
• 5.
• The Quixotic hero:
• Saul Bellow: the victim and the hero
• The Emersonian hero:
• J.D. Salinger: suicide and survival in the modern world
• Norman Mailer: the quest for heroism
• Under the shadow of our swords: Emerson and the heroic ideal
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: the absurdity of heroism
• Herman Melville: the nature of authority
• Walt Whitman: the putative hero
• Henry James: the illusion of freedom
• 2.

Control code

ocm00128882

Dimensions

22 cm.

Extent

xvi, 304 p.

Lccn

72142366

Record ID

u14723

System control number

• (Sirsi) 54894
• (OCoLC)128882