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Model of Metaphors
America as a Symbol: brief history and 130 quotations
Belief in God in American literature
Christ-evoking figures in American literature: Over 80 examples
Nature in American literature: 6 perspectives
Socialism opposed in American literature: 40 writers quoted
American “higher” education since the 1960’s
“American Authors” (c.1848), group portrait before Melville, Thoreau, Whitman
Moby-Dick: 21 different interpretations of the white whale
Huckleberry Finn: rebuttals to 12 aesthetic and racial criticisms
Emily Dickinson’s poetry: 18 transcendental characteristics
The Awakening: 46 critics differ on the ending
The Great Gatsby: Why Gatsby is great
Feminists censor Hemingway’s last novel
American authors most prized by book collectors (1991)