Books speaking to books : a contextual approach to American fiction / by William T. Stafford.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stafford, William T.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1981.
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Table of Contents:

Introduction: listening
A whale, an heiress, and a southern demigod: three symbolic Americas
Benjy Compson, Jake Barnes, and Nick Carraway: replication in three "innocent" American narrators of the 1920s
The obverse relation: some western flights eastward (in literature and film)
The black/white continuum: some recent examples in Bellow, Malamud, and Updike
Three applications: Truth's ragged edges: Melville's loyalties in Billy Budd--the commitment of form in the digressions. "The birthplace": James's Fable for critics? Faulkner's revolt against the 1920s: parody and transcendence, continuation and innovation
Afterword: Knower, doer, and sayer--the James family view of Emerson.

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