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Glucksman, Fredrica Bearg.

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Place as a Participant in Mid-Twentieth Century American Literary Nonfiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Place as a Participant in Mid-Twentieth Century American Literary Nonfiction./
Author:	Glucksman, Fredrica Bearg.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2024,
Description:	210 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-10A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31144627
ISBN:	9798382027005

Place as a Participant in Mid-Twentieth Century American Literary Nonfiction.
Glucksman, Fredrica Bearg.

Place as a Participant in Mid-Twentieth Century American Literary Nonfiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024 - 210 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.

Thesis (D.Litt.)--Drew University, 2024.

This dissertation examines exemplary works of four writers of mid-twentieth century American literary nonfiction to understand the influence of place on humanity, and that of humanity on place. However deftly the point of view may be camouflaged or employed, John Hersey's Hiroshima, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, James Baldwin's The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction 1948-1985, and Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album are the artful products of their authors' on-site research and encounters with participants in real life dramas that their readers know as the "news." The authors depict true geographic and atmospheric exteriors as well as invoke America's globally known myth, the American dream, and its citizens' understandings about and yearning for this ideal to point to moral interiors and ethical behaviors of American society.The concept that informs this study is that proposed by twentieth century, literary theorist M. M. Bakhtin, author of The Dialogic Imagination. While Bakhtin limited his interpretation of characters and meaning in fiction (and, by implication, to nonfiction) to the accumulation of actions over time in a single scene or place (i.e., a "chronotope"), this dissertation expands the territory to include the entire United States and its actions around the globe. In this light, the most persistent and pervasive quality about place in the{A0}United States is its idea about itself. Even in the twentieth century, the country's founders' expectations of living in a New Eden on the American continent, i.e., the American dream and its adaptation to an increasingly industrialized and capitalistic society, is a tacit assumption among the authors, a motivation of the people whose lives they feature, and an atavistic concept of American readers. As this dissertation demonstrates, Hersey, Capote, Baldwin, and Didion filter this national belief into their commentaries to contrast a chaotic present. While the reader's consolation is that the place still exists and time has not run out, these works of literary nonfiction remain not merely as myths or as the news of the past, but they resonate as lived and witnessed cautionary tales for the present.

ISBN: 9798382027005Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.
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American literary

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