Geoffrey Rans
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Rans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Rans |
| SIGNATURE | RANS G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels: A Secular Reading
Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels: A Secular Reading
James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales, published between 1823 and 1841, are generally regarded as America's first major works of fiction. Here, Geoffrey Rans provides not simply a new reading of the five novels that comprise the series but also a new way of reading them.Rans analyzes each of the five novels (The Pioneers, Last of the Mohicans, Prairie, Pathfinder, and Deerslayer) in the order in which they were originally composed, an ac…
Inaudible Man: The Indian in the Theory and Practice of White Fiction
Indians is remarkably silent, in general, I believe, Sir." J. F. Cooper, The Redskins. "The Spaniards were unable to exterminate the Indian race by those unparalleled atrocities which brand them with indelible shame, nor did they even succeed in wholly depriving it of its rights; but the Americans of the United States have accomplished this twofold pur- pose with singular felicity; tranquilly, legally, philanthropically, with- out shedding blood,…
But the Penalty of Adam: Cooper's Sense of the Subversive
Nevertheless, the community will live on, suffer and be deluded: it may even fancy itself within reach of perfection, but it will live on to be disappointed. james fenimore cooper: New York The opening passage of Faulkner's "The Bear" embodies not merely the clue to that particular story, but a central concern of the American, his response to the land he stands upon, that abides from the moment of wonder at the beginning imagined by Nick Carraway
E pluribus one loved folly: Observations on American Criticism
John F. Lynen, The Design of the Present. Yale University Press, 1969. $13.75. 456 pp. Joel Porte, The Romance in America. Wesleyan University Press, 1969. $8.00. 235 pp. Critics of American literature have, over the last twenty years especially, developed megalomaniac tendencies; for many of them nothing less than an overview will suffice as a frame for their remarks on individual authors. Two recent volumes exemplify the trend. Both show the wa…
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E pluribus one loved folly: Observations on American Criticism
John F. Lynen, The Design of the Present. Yale University Press, 1969. $13.75. 456 pp. Joel Porte, The Romance in America. Wesleyan University Press, 1969. $8.00. 235 pp. Critics of American literature have, over the last twenty years especially, developed megalomaniac tendencies; for many of them nothing less than an overview will suffice as a frame for their remarks on individual authors. Two recent volumes exemplify the trend. Both show the wa…
But the Penalty of Adam: Cooper's Sense of the Subversive
Nevertheless, the community will live on, suffer and be deluded: it may even fancy itself within reach of perfection, but it will live on to be disappointed. james fenimore cooper: New York The opening passage of Faulkner's "The Bear" embodies not merely the clue to that particular story, but a central concern of the American, his response to the land he stands upon, that abides from the moment of wonder at the beginning imagined by Nick Carraway
Inaudible Man: The Indian in the Theory and Practice of White Fiction
Indians is remarkably silent, in general, I believe, Sir." J. F. Cooper, The Redskins. "The Spaniards were unable to exterminate the Indian race by those unparalleled atrocities which brand them with indelible shame, nor did they even succeed in wholly depriving it of its rights; but the Americans of the United States have accomplished this twofold pur- pose with singular felicity; tranquilly, legally, philanthropically, with- out shedding blood,…
Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels: A Secular Reading
Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels: A Secular Reading
James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales, published between 1823 and 1841, are generally regarded as America's first major works of fiction. Here, Geoffrey Rans provides not simply a new reading of the five novels that comprise the series but also a new way of reading them.Rans analyzes each of the five novels (The Pioneers, Last of the Mohicans, Prairie, Pathfinder, and Deerslayer) in the order in which they were originally composed, an ac…
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