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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... literary con- ventions . They would have denied that the " realism " of Dreiser or Lewis or Dos Passos was itself a literary convention . Fiction was held to have documentary value in the sense that Lewis ' Main Street was precisely ...
... literary con- ventions . They would have denied that the " realism " of Dreiser or Lewis or Dos Passos was itself a literary convention . Fiction was held to have documentary value in the sense that Lewis ' Main Street was precisely ...
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... literary career , say far more about the novelist than about the forgotten poet . For Frederic was ambitious to earn a place among the greatest of those whose names were recorded in the " graven records of the race . " And , judging ...
... literary career , say far more about the novelist than about the forgotten poet . For Frederic was ambitious to earn a place among the greatest of those whose names were recorded in the " graven records of the race . " And , judging ...
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A Collection of Literary Biographies Leonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini. marked the end of one phase , the most carefree and lavish , of Irving's literary career . Not again would he write with such ...
A Collection of Literary Biographies Leonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini. marked the end of one phase , the most carefree and lavish , of Irving's literary career . Not again would he write with such ...
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