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标题：Two Theories of American Literature: Insights Into Faulkner's Southern Garden
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作者：Rita Terezinha Schmidt
期刊名称：Ilha do Desterro
印刷版ISSN：0101-4846
电子版ISSN：2175-8026
出版年度：1986
卷号：0
期号：15/16
页码：147-165
语种：English
出版社：Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
摘要：This paper has a two-fold purpose. First, to draw a parallel between two theoretical approaches to American Literature as presented in Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land (1950) and Leo Marx' The Machine in the Garden (1964) in order to examine how these studies, reciprocally interlocked by their concern with the master image of the American landscape, provide valuable conceptual tools for the understanding of the interdependence of literature, environment, socio-economic context and the collective imagination. Second, to investigate the extent to which some of these tools can be organized into a coherent framework which, applied to Faulkner's "The Bear" (Go Down, Moses, and Other Stories, 1942) illuminates the basic issues which sustain and determine its meaning.
关键词：English Language;English