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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... scene , use of dialogue as narration , removal of the omnis- cient author from his role as informer and commentator . This meant also imposing upon the reader the burden of ferreting out for him- self what is happening in the story . In ...
... scene , use of dialogue as narration , removal of the omnis- cient author from his role as informer and commentator . This meant also imposing upon the reader the burden of ferreting out for him- self what is happening in the story . In ...
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... scene in which Sharon capitulates to Elmer before an altar where she associates her- self , in a ritual invocation , with all goddesses of fertility : " It is the hour ! Blessed Virgin , Mother Hera , Mother Frigga , Mother Ishtar ...
... scene in which Sharon capitulates to Elmer before an altar where she associates her- self , in a ritual invocation , with all goddesses of fertility : " It is the hour ! Blessed Virgin , Mother Hera , Mother Frigga , Mother Ishtar ...
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... scenes wit- nessed successively in Rome , Constantinople , and Venice through the centuries by the four bronze horses that now adorn the façade of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice ; the closing scene is an Austrian air raid early in World ...
... scenes wit- nessed successively in Rome , Constantinople , and Venice through the centuries by the four bronze horses that now adorn the façade of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice ; the closing scene is an Austrian air raid early in World ...
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