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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... thirties was a decade of fear , misery and panic , of mass unemployment , the continuing defeat of democracy at the hands of Fascism and Nazism , and of the threat of universal war . The ... THIRTIES : AMERICAN The Thirties: American.
... thirties was a decade of fear , misery and panic , of mass unemployment , the continuing defeat of democracy at the hands of Fascism and Nazism , and of the threat of universal war . The ... THIRTIES : AMERICAN The Thirties: American.
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... thirties novels which are most alive today are precisely those least directly concerned with the social questions of the time . Yet even so , it is not quite so simple as it seems . We don't in these days think of Graham Greene as a ...
... thirties novels which are most alive today are precisely those least directly concerned with the social questions of the time . Yet even so , it is not quite so simple as it seems . We don't in these days think of Graham Greene as a ...
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... thirties fiction , except in the South , which had its other additional preoccupations , to the exclusion of everything else . Of course this was not so . Not all the expatriates left Paris at the end of 1929 to return to and rediscover ...
... thirties fiction , except in the South , which had its other additional preoccupations , to the exclusion of everything else . Of course this was not so . Not all the expatriates left Paris at the end of 1929 to return to and rediscover ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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