Author: Minter, David L.
Title: The Interpreted Design as a Structural Principle in American Prose
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1969. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, x,246 pp. Minor rubbing,slight top-page soil, VG, in a soiled dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Literary & Historical Backround: The Interpreted Design as a Prose Form; The Origins of Design: Aspects of the Colonial Experience; The Origins of Interpretation: The Puritan Jeremiad as a Literary Form; Design,Interpretation, and the Drama of Self-Portraiture: Anticipations of an Autobiographical Form: Edwards' 'Personal Narrative' and Franklin's ' Autobiography'; Apotheosis of the Form: Henry Adams' 'Education'; Design, Interpretation, and the Art of Fiction: Definition of a Fictional Form: Hawthorne's 'The Blithedale Romance'; Extension of the Form: Henry James, and Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'; Apotheosis of the Form: Faulkner's ' Absalom, Absalom!'.

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