Crane , some of his critics have argued and some still do , was not discriminating enough . He did not distinguish clearly poetry from life , epic from lyric , tradition from modernity , science from myth , history from fiction , reason ...
Well before the posthumous Collected Essays of 1995 , however , it was becoming clear that this impressive prose was not simply an assortment of personal opinions but a major body of cultural criticism that had already inspired other ...
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science : A Disciplinary History of American Writing . Cambridge University Press , 1990 . ... The Instructed Vision : Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and the Origins of American Fiction .
... density of “ significance , relation and value ” is opened for the reader's analysis : It is a prodigious multiplication of values , and thereby a prodigious entertainment of the vision – on the condition the vision can bear it .
Discusses the social, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic aspects of American literature
... Complicating ' Blackness ' : Remapping American Culture , ” this scholarship includes books by historians , such as David Roediger's The Wages of Whiteness : Race and the Making of the American Working Class ( 1991 ) and William ...
This diversity of meanings within a common language is strongly felt in poetry written by men throughout the century – a poetry in many ways focused upon the very question of what an American poetic language might be , what claims it ...
On Native Grounds : An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature . New York : Reynal & Hitchcock , 1942 . King , Richard . A Southern Renaissance : The Cultural Awakening of the American South , 1930-1955 .