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First published in 1895, The Red Badge of Courage found immediate success and brought its author immediate fame. In his introduction to this volume, Lee Clark Mitchell discusses how Crane broke with the conventions of both fiction and journalism to create a uniquely 'disruptive' prose style. The five essays that follow each explore different aspects of the novel. One studies the problem of establishing the authentic text; another examines it as a war novel; a third considers it as a critique of the rising mood of militant imperialism in the 1890s; a fourth focuses on the double perspective of the novel - its shift between the hero's perspective and a larger, 'cosmic' one; and the final essay examines the novel's deconstruction of courage/cowardice. Written in a highly accessible style, these essays represent the best of recent scholarship and provide students with a useful introduction to this major novel.

Crane, Stephen --- Crane, Stephen, --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- History --- Literature and the war --- Histoire --- Littérature et guerre --- Littérature et guerre --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Literature and the war. --- Crane, Stephen, - 1871-1900 - Red badge of courage --- United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Literature and the war

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Western stories --- American fiction --- Masculinity --- Motion pictures and literature --- Masculinity in literature. --- Western films --- Men in motion pictures. --- Men in literature. --- Littérature western --- Roman américain --- Masculinité --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Westerns --- Hommes au cinéma --- Hommes dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- West (U.S.) --- Etats-Unis (Ouest) dans la littérature --- In literature --- Littérature western --- Roman américain --- Masculinité --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Hommes au cinéma --- Hommes dans la littérature --- Etats-Unis (Ouest) dans la littérature

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"Mitchell argues that the Western continues to engage us because recent films deliberately defy classic patterns yet still appeal to an implicit fondness for genre conventions. Narrative expectations are so deeply stamped on our consciousness that we cannot escape reimposing assumptions on materials that barely resemble the classic Western" --

Western films --- Motion pictures --- Social change in motion pictures. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- History --- History and criticism --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- In motion pictures.

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"Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political), Lee Clark Mitchell joins a burgeoning neo-formalist movement in challenging readers to embrace a rationale for literary criticism that has too long been ignored-a neglect that corresponds, perhaps not coincidentally, to a flight from literature courses themselves. In close readings of six American novels spread over the past century-Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and The Road, and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Mitchell traces a shifting strain of late modernist innovation that celebrates a species of magic and wonder, of aesthetic "bliss" (as Barthes and Nabokov both coincidentally described the experience) that dumbfounds the reader and compels a reassessment of interpretive assumptions. The novels included here aspire to being read slowly, so that sounds, rhythms, repetitions, rhymes, and other verbal features take on a heightened poetic status-in critic Barbara Johnson's words, "the rigorous perversity and seductiveness of literary language."--thwarting pressures of plot that otherwise push us ineluctably forward. In each chapter, the return to "mere reading" becomes paradoxically a gesture that honors the intractability of fictional texts, their sheer irresolution, indeed the way in which their "literary" status rests on the play of irreconcilables that emerges from the verbal tensions we find ourselves first astonished by, then delighting in."--Bloomsbury Publishing. "Argues through close readings of twentieth-century American novels for a return to the foundations of literary study"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

American fiction --- Books and reading. --- Criticism. --- Wonder in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Masculinity in literature --- Men in literature --- West [U.S.] in literature --- Motion pictures and literature - West (U.S.)