Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon

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Index Adolescence, of Huck Finn and United States, 125, 126 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), critical controversy over, 124- 128; and Invisible Man, 138- 145; Twain's COIllment on, 159- 160 n3 Aeneid (I)ryden), 41-42 Affirmation/negation dichotomy, 140- 142 Afro-American, Tod Clifton as ideal, 67- 68, 72; values of, and ITIoderniSITI , 24- 26. See also Blacks After Babel (Steiner), 49, 50 A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Proust), 35 Alexander Pope-The Poetry of Allusion (Brower), 27- 28, 29, 46 Allusion, acceptance and denial of, 99; as act of affirmation, 28; as act of subordination , 28; agitating effect of, 55; to Christ and Satan in Invisible Man, 72- 83; defined, 155n3; demanding conscious attention by, 57- 58; and elegy, 156 n 13; Ellison's use of, 73; epic, 28; Golden Day in Invisible Man, 85-86, 94-1°3; H. Bloom on, 39-40; as critical subtext of, 127146 ; limiting reference of, 50-62; as literary criticism, 45, 59-62; literary versus general, 56; and modernism, 149- 150; overt and covert, 32; to the past, 43; promoting stability of text, 60; referent changed by, 58-62; referent of, 48; R. Brower on, 27- 30; and simultaneity, 45; as stabilizers of meaning, 147; studies of, annotated bibliography of, 155 n 1; theory of, 27, 31, 155 n4; and tradition, xii; and translation, 45- 50; transumptive, 40; value of, 53-55 America's Coming ofAge (Brooks), 1, 94 American Renaissance (Matthiessen), 94 An American Dilemma (Myrdal), 15 Anatomy ofCriticism (Frye), 31, 32, 33, 34, 36 Animal figures, 32- 33 Antebellum AITIerica, as ideal world, 2-4 Antebellum South. See Old South Anxiety of Influence, The (Bloom), 39 Archetypes, 33-34,37 Aristocracy, and "redneck," 153 n14; Southern, myth of, 7 Armstrong, Louis, 20 Arnold, Matthew, 30 Ash Wednesday (Eliot), 32 Assumptions, as necessary to meaning, 19; spheres of, xiii; about tradition, 33. See also Hermeneutics Augustan poetry, 27- 28 Babo, 106, 107 Baker, Houston, 20 Barbee, Homer A., 54- 55 Barnes, Daniel, 160 n6 Barthes, Roland, 19 Battle Royal, 158 n7 Baumbach, Jonathan, 65-66 Beard, Charles A. and Mary R., 1, 2- 3, 151 n2 174 Index Beard, William, 151 n2 Beecher, Lyman, 90 Beidler, Peter G., 160n4 Ben-Porat, Ziva, 27, 56 "Benito Cereno" (Melville), 17, 104-111 Bennett, Stephen B., 157 n 3 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 159 n6 Berlin, Ira, 10, 11-12, 153n16 Betrayal motif, 73-78 Bigsby, C. W. E., 24 Billings, Dwight B., 153 n 14 Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), 52 Birth ofa Nation, The, 16 Black Guinea, 147-149 Blackmur, R. P., 151 n3 Blacks, family structure, 153 n18; and hunlor, 22; invisibility of, 4-14; as metaphor for outsider, 153 n 18; as symbolic moral burden, 61; as universal slave, 13. See also Afro-American Black string, 65; and black power, 81 - 82; of tradition and betrayal, 73-78 Blake, Susan L., 22, 25 Bledsoe, Dr., 101-102, 109, 140, 142; and Emersonianism, 114-121 Bledsoe-Emerson letter, 115, 118 Blindness, and faith, 75 Bloom, Harold, 25, 30-3 1, 38-41,44, 156nlo Bode, Carl, 157 n 1 Bogley, WiJIiam C., 151 n2 Bone, Robert, 20- 21, 157 n2 Bradbrook, M. C., 145 Brockway, Lucius, 135; parallels to Huck, 142 Brooks, Cleanth, 1 Brooks, Van Wyck, 1, 2, 3, 94, 151n3, 159n1; on Huckleberry Finn, 124, 12 5 Brotherhood, 120; parallels with Tom Sawyer, 137-139 Brother Jack, 138, 139; as Satanic figure , 68-69 Brother Tarp, 139-140, 142 Brower, Reuben A., 155 114, 155 n 5 Brower, Reuben, 27- 30, 33, 34, 46, 47-48 Brown, Spencer, 160 n8 Bruce, Dickson D., 6, 13 Buell, Lawrence, 159 n6 Bunyan, Paul, 87 Canon, American, formation of, xi; Progressivist critics influence on, 3-4; reinterpretation of, 17- 18 Canonicity, xii Carlisle, E. F., 158 n2 Carnal reading, 19; of Tod Clifton in Invisible Man, 63-64 Cash, William J., 152- 153 n 14 Cavalier, Southerner as, 2- 3 Cereno, 104-111, 158n3 Chain link, and entrapment, 140-142 Change, advocacy of, from invisibility, xi-xiii; as a constant, 33; E. Spenser on, 156n8 Channing, William Ellery, 92 Charters, 151 n 1; of criticism, 1 Cheshire, Ardner R., Jr., 157 n2 Chesterton, G. K., 31 Christ images, 72-83 Christian, Barbara, 64 "Circles" (Emerson), 118, 121- 122 Civil War, L. Mumford on, 88-89; Progressivist critics on, 2- 3; Tory Formalists on, 2-3 Cixous, Helene, 156 nil Clement, Catherine, 156 nil Clifton, Tad, 63-84; as anti-Christ, 72-73; blackness...