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To this select list we may now add Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel. In many ways, Mr. Fiedler is the logical successor to the critical tradition we have been discussing. His previous book, a re-appraisal of the liberal tradition called An End to Innocence, reflected the quandary of present-day liberalism
Love and Death in the American Novel: Leslie Fiedler, as, for example, Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), was marked by its provocative application of Freudian ideas to American literature. In his later work he turned to popular culture as a source of revealing social and psychological patterns. A more-subtle
15 May 2011 Love and death in the American novel by Leslie A. Fiedler; 1 edition; First published in 1975; Subjects: American fiction, History and criticism, Love in literature, American National characteristics, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, In library.
"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."a€"Washington Post. A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as "one of the great, essential books on the American imagination
Love and Death in American Literature. Code: 42291. ECTS Credits: 6. Degree. Type. Year. Semester. 4313157 Advanced English Studies. OT. 0. 0. Teachers. Aranzazu Usandizaga Sainz. Prerequisites. -Students should be interested in reading classic and modern texts. -Previous knowledge and reading of English and
Leslie Aaron Fiedler (March 8, 1917 – January 29, 2003) was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature. His most renowned work is Love and Death in the American Novel (1960).
*Life and Death in the American Novel. Resurrection Boy. “He chased me round and round the place with a clasp-knife, calling me the Angel of Death and saying he would kill mebut I slid out of the jacket quick as lightning, and saved myself." T.S. Eliot has said that “there is no more solitary character in fiction" than Huck
In a collection of essays published in 1955 under the title An End to Innocence, Leslie Fiedler introduced a complex theme which he examines here in full scale: that the American novel differs most radically from its European ancestor and counterpart in the failure of our major novelists to deal with adult heterosexuality and

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