America in Modern European Literature: From Image to Metaphor

This book is concerned with what the European writer finds usable about the inherited connotations attached to America. Professor Ruland, starting with the notion that ideas about America have long formed part of Europe's folklore, questions what the writer has done with this inheritance, and how it has combined with his other resources to produce the work we celebrate him for. We were not born to survive, alas, but to step on the gas Andrei Voznesensky . xv, iii , 197+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..