`Reality in America' revisited: Modernism, the liberal imagination and the revival of Henry...

Discusses the issue of having an exclusive canon of texts in American literature. Revival of Henry James in the 1940s; Lionel Trilling's ambivalence about grounding cultural criticism in a formalist fiction; Variegated look at American literature and modernism in the present.

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Publicado en:Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 1 - 30
Autor principal: Nowlin, Michael E.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Toronto Press Spring1993
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Sumario:Discusses the issue of having an exclusive canon of texts in American literature. Revival of Henry James in the 1940s; Lionel Trilling's ambivalence about grounding cultural criticism in a formalist fiction; Variegated look at American literature and modernism in the present.