Nothing abstract : investigations in the American literary imagination /
| Основен автор: | Quirk, Tom, 1946- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
2001.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Nothing abstract. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction
- Sources, influences, and intertexts
- Authors, intentions, and texts
- What if Poe's humorous tales were funny? Poe's "x-ing a paragrab" and Twain's "Journalism in Tennessee"
- Hawthorne's last tales and "The custom-house"
- The judege dragged to the bar: Melville, Shaw, and the Webster murder trial
- Mark Twain in his short works
- The short stories of Ambrose Bierce
- Realism, the "real," and the poet of reality: some reflections on American realists and the poetry of Wallace Stevens
- In the shallow light of the present: the moral geography of Death comes for the archbishop
- Fitzgerald and Cather: The great Gatsby
- A source for "Where are you going, where have you been?"
- Justice on the reservation: Tony Hillerman's novels and the conflict between federal and tribal jurisdiction
- The trying out of genetic inquiry.