William T Stafford
Biographic Data
| ID | 997557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William T Stafford |
| GIVEN NAMES | William T |
| FAMILY NAME | Stafford |
| SIGNATURE | STAFFORD W T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Books Speaking to Books
Stafford introduces the rich interpretive possibilities in a contextual analysis of literature. He finds in Moby Dick, The Wings of the Dove, and Absalom, Absalom! three symbolic Americas linked through images of whiteness that are collectively prophetic. Three novels of the 1920s (by Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald) are linked by themes of innocence; three of the 1970s (by Bellows, Malamud, and Updike), by black-white pairs. His flexible met…
Henry James
An ‘Easy Ride’ For Henry James; or, is Captain America Christopher Newman (?)‐The Master and Pop Kultur, A Note from the Midwest
The Air of Reality
There is a new generation of critics with a particular interest in Henry James, and it is the intention of this collection of original essays to give a representative sample of its flavour. Using a wide variety of methods, ranging from close readingtodetailedhistoricalplacing, thecontributors are provocative and radical. They include John Lucas on Washington Square, Juliet Mitchell on What Maisie Knew, Gabriel Pearson on The Golden Bowl, Bernard …
Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination
Frontiers of American Culture
Frontiers of American Culture
Literary Allusions in James's Prefaces
James's Prefaces New York Edition as the most sustained and . . . most eloquent and original piece of literary criticism in existence with Rene Wellek's belief that, judged as criticism, [they] are disappointing is perhaps see well enough extremes of praise and reservation provoked by James's famous essays on his own work.' Wellek, of course, also maintains that are . . . of great interest student of James's life and career as a writer, but, he c…
Lowell "Edits" James
Emerson and the James Family
E. 0. MATTHIESSEN has said that of the James family upon Emerson compose by themselves a chapter of American intellectual history.' Those comments are significant simply as near-contemporary evaluations of Emerson by three men of widely divergent tastes. That the Jameses were of one family, a father and two sons, does not lend conformity to their evaluations. The thesis of this study might therefore be stated as early evaluations of Emerson by a …
Emerson and the James Family
E. 0. MATTHIESSEN has said that of the James family upon Emerson compose by themselves a chapter of American intellectual history.' Those comments are significant simply as near-contemporary evaluations of Emerson by three men of widely divergent tastes. That the Jameses were of one family, a father and two sons, does not lend conformity to their evaluations. The thesis of this study might therefore be stated as early evaluations of Emerson by a …
Emerson and the James Family
E. 0. MATTHIESSEN has said that of the James family upon Emerson compose by themselves a chapter of American intellectual history.' Those comments are significant simply as near-contemporary evaluations of Emerson by three men of widely divergent tastes. That the Jameses were of one family, a father and two sons, does not lend conformity to their evaluations. The thesis of this study might therefore be stated as early evaluations of Emerson by a …
Lowell "Edits" James
Literary Allusions in James's Prefaces
James's Prefaces New York Edition as the most sustained and . . . most eloquent and original piece of literary criticism in existence with Rene Wellek's belief that, judged as criticism, [they] are disappointing is perhaps see well enough extremes of praise and reservation provoked by James's famous essays on his own work.' Wellek, of course, also maintains that are . . . of great interest student of James's life and career as a writer, but, he c…
Frontiers of American Culture
Frontiers of American Culture
Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination
An ‘Easy Ride’ For Henry James; or, is Captain America Christopher Newman (?)‐The Master and Pop Kultur, A Note from the Midwest
The Air of Reality
There is a new generation of critics with a particular interest in Henry James, and it is the intention of this collection of original essays to give a representative sample of its flavour. Using a wide variety of methods, ranging from close readingtodetailedhistoricalplacing, thecontributors are provocative and radical. They include John Lucas on Washington Square, Juliet Mitchell on What Maisie Knew, Gabriel Pearson on The Golden Bowl, Bernard …
Henry James
Books Speaking to Books
Stafford introduces the rich interpretive possibilities in a contextual analysis of literature. He finds in Moby Dick, The Wings of the Dove, and Absalom, Absalom! three symbolic Americas linked through images of whiteness that are collectively prophetic. Three novels of the 1920s (by Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald) are linked by themes of innocence; three of the 1970s (by Bellows, Malamud, and Updike), by black-white pairs. His flexible met…
History (10 works) · Art (6 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research (2 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (2 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (2 works)