Nothing abstract investigations in the American literary imagination

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1. Verfasser: Quirk, Tom 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Columbia University of Missouri Press 2001
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Beschreibung:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 234 p.)
ISBN:0826213642
0826263089
9780826213648
9780826263087