The Emblematic Novel: Esoteric Realism in the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation

by Jon Woodson

The Emblematic Novel reveals the hidden system of alchemical emblems, Tarot cards, photographs, and paintings that are coded into Carl Van Vechten's novel The Blind Bow-Boy. Chapter Two shows that Van Vechten's esoteric novel was the template for a large number of canonical modernist novels including works by Faulkner, Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee, Ralph Ellison, Raymond Chandler, John O'Hara, Thornton Wilder, Frank...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C2RX96YW
• ISBN13: 9798392420179
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"