| Edition |
[1st ed. |
| Description |
231 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Fiction and fact: Technique and raw material -- Mythic past -- pt. 2. State of nature: To the woods: Henry Thoreau -- Open road: Walt Whitman -- High seas: Herman Melville -- Available past: Mark Twain -- pt. 3. Bridge: Use of the past: Henry James -- Abuse of the past: Norman Rockwell -- pt. 4. Ability to function: Function of style: Ernest Hemingway -- Function of appetite: Thomas Wolfe -- Function of nostalgia: F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Function of rage: William Faulkner -- pt. 5. American scene: Objects and places -- pt. 6. Territory ahead: Immediate present. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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