Christian Messenger: 2 books
Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction
Hawthorne to Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1983
In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in touch with its people, their traditions, and their fantasy lives.
This is the first...
by Christian K. Messenger
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In this fascinating study, Chris Messenger posits F. Scott Fitzgerald as a great master of sentiment in modern American fiction. Sentimental forms both attracted and repelled Fitzgerald while defining his deepest impulses as a prose writer. Messenger demonstrates that the sentimental identities, refractions,...