Jane Tompkins: Sensational Designs

Cover: 9780195041194 | Sensational Designs | The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860

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What makes a literary classic? In "Sensational Designs" Jane Tompkins argues that it is not the intrinsic merit of a text, but rather the circumstances of its writing. Against the modernist belief that art, in order to be art, must be free from propaganda, Tompkins contends that writers like Brockden Brown, Cooper, Stowe, and Warner wrote in order to alter the face of the social world, not to elicit aesthetic [...], the value and significance of the novels, for readers of their time, depended on precisely those characteristics that formalist criticism has taught us to deplore: stereotyped characters, sensational plots, and cliched language.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	1989
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780195041194
ISBN-10:	0195041194
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Tompkins, Jane
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Jane Tompkins
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.1989
Gewicht:	0,371 kg