Leslie Fiedler
American literary critic and author known for influential and often controversial studies of American literature and culture—notably Love and Death in the American Novel—and for writing on myth, popular culture, and sexuality.
Books
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1. Love And Death In The American Novel
A provocative critical study arguing that the dominant themes of the American novel are entwined passions for love and for death, producing recurrent motifs of male homosocial bonds, sexual ambivalence, incestuous undertones, and violent or death-centered resolutions; it traces these patterns through major writers and links them to Puritanism, the frontier myth, and cultural repression, showing how national myths shape narrative form and the recurring failure of mature heterosexual love.
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