F. O. 马西森(F. O. Matthiessen)是美国文学和美国研究领域有影响力的教育家、学者和文学评论家。他知名的作品《美国文艺复兴:爱默生与惠特曼时代的艺术和表现》颂扬了几位19世纪美国作家的成就,并对一代学者产生了深远的影响。
目錄:
BOOK ONE: FROM EMERSON TO THOREAU
I. IN THE OPTATIVE MOOD
1. Consciousness
2. Eloquence
3. Expression
4. The Word One with the Thing
5. ‘The light of the body is the eye’
6. A Few Herbs and Apples
7. The Flowing
8. Self-Portrait of Saadi
II. THE ACTUAL GLORY
1. Expected Unexpectedness
2. What Music Shall We Have?
3. Thinking in Images
III. THE METAPHYSICAL STRAIN
1. Man Thinking
2. The Mingling of Walden and Ganges
3. Ishmael‘s Loom of Time
IV. THE ORGANIC PRINCIPLE
1. From Coleridge to Emerson
2. Horatio Greenough
3. Thoreau
4. New England Landscapes
5. Walden: Craftsmanship vs. Technique
BOOK TWO: HAWTHORNE
V. THE VISION OF EVIL
VI. PROBLEM OF THE ARTIST AS NEW ENGLANDER
1. Starting Point
2. The First Tales
3. ‘To open an intercourse with the world’
4. The Haunted Mind
VII. ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM
Theory
1. The American Bias and Background
2. The Imagination as Mirror
3. The Crucial Definition of Romance
Practice
1. The Scarlet Letter
2. From ‘Young Goodman Brown’ to ‘The Whiteness of the Whale’
3. Hawthorne and James
4. Hawthorne and Milton
Coda
VIII. A DARK NECESSITY
1. Hawthorne’s Politics, with the Economic Structure of The Seven Gables
2. Hawthorne‘s Psychology: The Acceptance of Good and Evil
3. From Hawthorne to James to Eliot
BOOK THREE: MELVILLE
IX. MOMENT OF TRANSITION
1. ‘Out of unhandselled savage nature’
2. Mardi: A Source-Book for Plenitude
3. Autobiography and Art
X. THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY
1. The Economic Factor
2. ‘The worlds a ship on its passage out’
3. Structure
4. ‘A bold and nervous lofty language’
5. The Matching of the Forces
6. The Fate of the Ungodly God-like Man
7. The Levels Beyond
XI. THE TROUBLED MIND
XII. REASSERTION OF THE HEART
1. An Alien to His Contemporaries
2. Billy Budd, Foretopman
BOOK FOUR: WHITMAN
XIII. ONLY A LANGUAGE EXPERIMENT
1. ‘Words! book-words! what are you?’
2. Vision and Attitude
3. Three Analogies for a Poem
Oratory
The Opera
The Ocean
4. ‘Rhythm in its last ruggedness and decomposition’
5. ‘Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden’
The Genre Painting of W.S. Mount
The Realism of Millet and of Eakins
‘And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls?’
XIV. MAN IN THE OPEN AIR
1. The Need for Mythology
2. Representative Men
3. American Demigods
4. Full Circle
CHRONOLOGY
INDEX