American Writers: A Collection of Literary BiographiesLeonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini Scribner, 1974 - American literature The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated. |
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... characters form a spectrum of human possibilities . And as the neighborhood flows into the larger city , so the characters ' actions are not contained within neatly plotted sequences . They overflow formal boundaries with the wash of ...
... characters form a spectrum of human possibilities . And as the neighborhood flows into the larger city , so the characters ' actions are not contained within neatly plotted sequences . They overflow formal boundaries with the wash of ...
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... character to James Henle in 1946 : he had tried to place Bernard " on the same plane as the other characters , " and he did not want to have “ culture . . . con- ceal reality in the books . " Yet we miss a com- pelling sense in Bernard ...
... character to James Henle in 1946 : he had tried to place Bernard " on the same plane as the other characters , " and he did not want to have “ culture . . . con- ceal reality in the books . " Yet we miss a com- pelling sense in Bernard ...
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... characters whose names I never did know . Because they didn't tell me . There was one in Pylon , for instance , he was the central character in the book , he never did tell me who he was . " This is a very revealing comment - and if one ...
... characters whose names I never did know . Because they didn't tell me . There was one in Pylon , for instance , he was the central character in the book , he never did tell me who he was . " This is a very revealing comment - and if one ...
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