 | Giles Gunn - History - 1992 - 292 pages
...to this romantic dream amounts to a correspondent and not un-Calvinist dread, to quote Tanner again, "that someone else is patterning your life, that there...autonomy of thought and action, that conditioning is ubiquitous."23 Thus Hawthorne again, in Chillingworth's selfexcusing confession to Hester: "My old... | |
 | William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff - History - 2003 - 378 pages
...to this romantic dream amounts to a correspondent and not un-Calvinist dread, to quote Tanner again, "that someone else is patterning your life, that there...autonomy of thought and action, that conditioning is ubiq24 Tony Tanner, City of Words (New York: Harper and Row, 1971), 15. "Henry James, The Portrait... | |
 | Dennis Barone - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 220 pages
...“unpatterned, unconditioned life” exists in provocative tension with “an abiding American dread that someone else is patterning your life, that there are all sorts of plots afoot to rob you of your autonomy of thought and action, that conditioning is ubiquitous” (15).... | |
 | Patricia Merivale, Susan Sweeney - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 324 pages
...unconditioned life is possible, in which your movements are all your own; and ... an abiding American dread that someone else is patterning your life, that there...autonomy of thought and action, that conditioning is ubiquitous" (Tanner 15). When language no longer describes outer reality, that is, reality itself becomes... | |
 | Timothy Melley - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 258 pages
...American literature expresses not only desire for "an unpatterned, unconditioned life" but also "dread that someone else is patterning your life, that there...to rob you of your autonomy of thought and action" (15). This is a perceptive description of the dynamic I am investigating. Yet City of Words itself... | |
 | David Greenberg - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 516 pages
...The American fiction of the period, observed critic Tony Tanner, revealed "an abiding American dread that someone else is patterning your life, that there...to rob you of your autonomy of thought and action." In the novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, and Don DeLillo, individuals found themselves... | |
 | David Greenberg - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 524 pages
...The American fiction of the period, observed critic Tony Tanner, revealed "an abiding American dread that someone else is patterning your life, that there...to rob you of your autonomy of thought and action." In the novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, and Don DeLillo, individuals found themselves... | |
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American dread that someone else is patterning your life, that there are all sorts of invisible plots afoot to rob you of your autonomy of thought and action. 