Misc. on Romance in Amer Lit

[Dave Monroe]

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> I happened to get an old, olde mass paperback of
> Henry James's THE AMERICAN. Was 50c back in its day.
>
> Had an introduction by a good American critic, R. P. Blackmur,
> which is why. The intro is copyrighted 1960.
>
> I looked up the initial date of Richard Chase's AMERICAN NOVEL AND
> ITS TRADITION, the critical work which best laid out the case for
> Romance, lit sense, as a---THE--major mode for the American novel.
> We have used the concept and discussed it hereon. it was 1957.
>
> I mention because Blackmur says James was right in calling his novel
> a Romance. (not my usual way of understanding James)
>
> Anyway, HJ sez...The real is what we cannot NOT know...
> while Romance is "the way things don't happen may be artfully made to pass
> for the way things do"...
>
> not irrelevant to Pynchon, right?
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