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Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
c1942
Language
English
Description
An important historian of American literature, Alfred Kazin delivers an exhaustive-yet accessible-analysis of modernist fiction from the tail end of the Victorian period to the beginning of WWII. America's golden age-from 1890 to 1940-included the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Their struggle for realism served as the basis for Kazin's interpretation. Kazin's debut was impressive in its scope for such...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1964, ©1963]
Language
English
Description
"Because I Was Flesh is the story of Edward Dahlberg's life as a child and young man, and a portrait in depth of the remarkable woman, his mother Lizzie, who shaped it." Dahlberg was an American novelist, essayist, and autobiographer. --Amazon
Author
Series
Nonpareil book volume 78
Language
English
Description
"Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American polymath. He provided links between art and literature, music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present-and pretty much everything in between. Not only had Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything in print, he also had the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural synapses...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should not be taken as historically accurate but as metaphorically authentic. Adams focuses on five modern American writers whose autobiographies are particularly...
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
"Being a compilation of poems, verse, burial orations, essays, story fragments, notions, fancies and concepts having to do with the Cosmos, the Universe, visitations, annunciations, first and last suppers, early Sabbaths, communions, bar mitzvahs, father and son banquets that stretch from here to infinity to try parson, preacher, priest and rabbinical souls. More: to wake sleepers, shorten Sundays, and re-invigorate truths once lost but now gladly...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Turning from poetry to prose, acclaimed poet Stephen Dunn here experiments with short related prose pieces that play off one another in the manner of jazz improvisations. These pairs cover such subjects as "Hypocrisy/Precision", "Money/Indulgence", and "Anger/Generosity", among others. The wisdom and startling verbal turns we've come to expect from Dunn's poetry are everywhere in the 90 miniatures (45 pairs) that compose this volume.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
A compilation of fiction and nonfiction includes both previously published and hitherto unpublished stories, such as In the Village, The Housekeeper, and Gwendolyn and nonfiction works discovered among the author's papers after her death.