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An Across Walls Overview-study of Novels and Short Stories by Eighteen 20th Century English and American Authors
Gillian Mary Hanson
出版
E. Mellen Press
, 2002
主題
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
Literary Criticism / American / Regional
ISBN
0773469974
9780773469976
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TLnyAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In Dr. Hanson's work, each chapter clearly and effectively juxtaposes an English and an American Writer who utilizes similar themes and patterns in their stories and who as it were, generally lived and wrote during common or close decades within the century. In identifying common themes of women writers in the American South and the English North, she not only highlights finer terrains of culture and literature but also, paradoxically, bridges these two unique locales and brings them closer together. The Deep South, the Far North - south of the Mason-Dixon Line in the United States, or north of the River Trent in Great Britain, all is fair game to the metropolitan pundits to point to the distinction, and consider with little sympathy or understanding. Rarely do they allow the writers who live in or write about those outlandish regions to come with full justice into the center. Yet the true center is a region that the metropolitan crowd can hardly know with any exactitude. A talented and interesting spoiler from the boondocks or outback rarely regards the center of artistic judgement to be some geographical point of reference in the capital city, but rather as a zone in the middle o