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Maekawa, Reiko. "F.O. Matthiessen: After American Renaissance," Case Western Reserve University, June 1985. Advisor: Gary Lee Stonum/Morrell Heald (12, 11)
This study focuses on the mature literary criticism of F.O. Matthiessen (1902-1950). Matthiessen’s works after American Renaissance (1941), especially Henry James: The Major Phase (1944) and Theodore Dreiser (1951), can be read as extensions of his dominant preoccupations expressed in American Renaissance. The author argues that Matthiessen’s search for a vision that synthesized seemingly contradictory elements in the American creative imagination was closely related to his personal desire for wholeness. By tracing the relation between Matthiessen’s writings after American Renaissance and his later experience, this study explores the burden of his synthesis-oriented career.
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