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Love and Death in the American Novel
Fiedler, Leslie A.수련
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A retrospective article on Leslie Fielder in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to this work as "one of the great, essential books on American Imagination -- an accepted major work." This groundbreaking critical tome, first published ...
he seeks not to taste life without restraint but to control it fully; and his essential crime (or glory!) is, therefore, not seduction but the Satanic bargain: to sell one's soul to the Devil. (Love and Death, 114)
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Anyone who, in full consciousness, surrenders the hope of heaven (what everyone says heaven is) for the endurance of hell (what everyone knows hell to be) has entered into a pact with Satan; and the very act, therefore, of writing a gothic novel rather than a sentimental one, of devoting a long fiction to terror rather than love, is itself a Faustian commitment. (Love and Death,
115)