Patterns of Commitment in American Literature / / ed. by Marston LaFrance.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Gay Wilson,; Beattie, Munro,; Clark, Harry Hayden,; Fuchs, Daniel,; Gilman, William H.,; Hoffman, Frederick J.,; LaFrance, Marston,; Lawson, Lewis A.,; Millgate, Michael,; Salomon, Roger B.,; Stern, Milton R.,
• HerausgeberIn: LaFrance, Marston,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; The Hero and the Heroic in American Literature: An Essay in Definition --; Hawthorne: Tradition versus Innovation --; Melville's Tragic Imagination: The Hero without a Home --; The Two Poets of Leaves of Grass --; Mark Twain and Victorian Nostalgia --; The Many Marriages of Henry James --; Stephen Crane's Private Fleming: His Various Battles --; Wallace Stevens and Santayana --; The Grotesque in Recent Southern Fiction --; William Faulkner: The Problem of Point of View --; Contemporary American Poetry --; Notes on Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487579708; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487579708
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Marston LaFrance.

This collection of previously unpublished essays written by leading scholars in the field of American literature was commissioned by the Department of English at Carleton University to celebrate the establishment of the programmie in American literature. The contributors are William H. Gilman on the hero and the heroic, Harry Hayden Clark on Hawthorne, Milton R. Stern on Melville, Gay Wilson Allen on Whitman, Roger B. Salomon on Mark Twain, Munro Beattie on Henry James, Marston LaFrance on Crane, Daniel Fuchs on Stevens and Santayana, Lewis A. Lawson on the grotesque, Michael Millgate on Faulkner, and Frederisk J. Hoffman on contemporary American poetry. Their essays, which examine some of the major writers in the American tradition, produce a fresh interpretation and understanding of this literature. Written in a straightforward style, the essays offer useful and clearly understandable criticism of some of the most important writing to come out of the United States. The theme of the collection can be stated as commitment to action based upon the individual's perception of reality: he is required to perceive reality correctly, and to commit himself to action on their basis of his perception.