E pluribus one loved folly
Observations on American Criticism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8896041 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoffrey Rans (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-61 |
| Publication date | 1971-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-002-01-06 |
| OpenAlex | W1996613075 |
| Language | EN |
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 way in which overviews usually produce overkill. The heart sinks as Joel Porte curtseys to Professors Fiedler, Feidelson, R. W. B. Lewis, Chase, Levin, and Hoffman. Even as he explains how his study differs from the others', he makes it sound depressingly the same sort of thing
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |