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The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville
The Power of Blackness Hawthorne Poe Melville Author:Harry Levin A searching reinterpretation of hte classic American masters of fiction-- maintaining that the characteristic mode of American writing is not the realistic novel, but the imaginative, symbolic romance. — "The depth of thought and scope of inquiry in The Power of — Blackness make it a work of the finest sort of critical scholarship. Yet it is writ... more »ten with such clarity, lively power, and economy that it makes but a small package. More than a study of Hawthorne, Poe and Melville, it illuminates the dark side of American life as well as its letters, and provides a basis of criticism that no one who wishes to understand any American book can afford to be without." -New York Post
"...In his explorations deep beneath the surfaces of American literary art, Mr. Levin brings real treasure to light, and the intensity of his critical intelligence is well matched by the brilliance of his presentation." -New York Herald Tribune« less