Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
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... English ? The commonsense answer is that he is both ; his novels belong to both literatures . Even so , the English reader tends to forget that James was an American before he was English and that Hawthorne was his literary ancestor no ...
... English ? The commonsense answer is that he is both ; his novels belong to both literatures . Even so , the English reader tends to forget that James was an American before he was English and that Hawthorne was his literary ancestor no ...
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The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time Walter Ernest Allen. genius pulls him through , but all ... English . If the great theme of American fiction has been the exploration of what it means to be an American ...
The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time Walter Ernest Allen. genius pulls him through , but all ... English . If the great theme of American fiction has been the exploration of what it means to be an American ...
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The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time Walter Ernest Allen. fiction . It is not a narrow one ; and since the novel is anyway an inter- national form , the English novelist may derive in part from traditions of the ...
The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time Walter Ernest Allen. fiction . It is not a narrow one ; and since the novel is anyway an inter- national form , the English novelist may derive in part from traditions of the ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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