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... character , and a change of name can score an im- portant plot point . Surnames especially , but all names in these liti- gious times , have to be chosen with an eye to possible legal suits . All these factors impinge on our literary ...
... character , and a change of name can score an im- portant plot point . Surnames especially , but all names in these liti- gious times , have to be chosen with an eye to possible legal suits . All these factors impinge on our literary ...
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... character Ah Sin of Bret Harte , Mark Twain's contemporary , the California Gold Country storyteller now nearly unread . His Ah Sin character , in the once - popular poem " Plain Language from Truth- ful James " ( Harte 1924 ) ...
... character Ah Sin of Bret Harte , Mark Twain's contemporary , the California Gold Country storyteller now nearly unread . His Ah Sin character , in the once - popular poem " Plain Language from Truth- ful James " ( Harte 1924 ) ...
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... character , an undercoater , is a " typical " working - class figure , a " representative American " ( Vonnegut 1952 : 139 ) , vaguely dissatis- fied but emasculated in Vonnegut's dystopia . This " Edgar R. B. Hagstrohm , " who lives in ...
... character , an undercoater , is a " typical " working - class figure , a " representative American " ( Vonnegut 1952 : 139 ) , vaguely dissatis- fied but emasculated in Vonnegut's dystopia . This " Edgar R. B. Hagstrohm , " who lives in ...
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American Indian placenames in the United States | 15 |
the derivation and referent of an old puzzle | 39 |
Placenames derived from Chinook Jargon in the state | 57 |
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