The Po-Mo Puritan
May 13th, 2005 by jasonLynch follows themes found throughout American fiction, especially that with a Puritanical background:
He follows an intrinsically American moralistic obsession with the ideas of innate depravity (13).
Lynch’s villains… are drawn from the same archetypes that populate American fiction (13).
… effigies of anomie, incubi of chaos, are particularly American demons (14).
American national identity: that of the individual [...]