1. Franklin Autobiography and Crevecoeur Letters from an Americ
Both works address large conceptions of democratic life through narrative strategies predicated on the writers' attempts,-the first resulting in successful parable and the second in failed "myth," to invest personally vouched-for recitals of experience with larger sanctions of discovered representative truth. ... and then describes the process whereby the constituents of experience from which he fashions a highly particularized sense of personal identity become precisely those which justify his assumption of his final role in the narrative, that of representative American. ... One has ...
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