| Description |
x, 389 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Marlowe's damnations -- Thomas Nashe and The unfortunate traveller -- Shakespeare at thirty -- Notes on Macbeth 00 Shakespeare's last word Justice and redemption The freedom of the poet -- 2. The development of Anne Frank -- Conrad's journey -- The mind of Isaac Babel -- The monk and its author -- The freedom of the Don Slapstick and the supernatural Sancho's proverbs -- 3. The world of Henry James -- Stephen Crane The red badge of courage The open boat -- Enslavement: three American cases Theodore Dreiser Dreiser's "The titan" F. Scott Fitzgerald The case of Ring Lardner -- Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" -- A note on Augie -- 4. "Song of myself": intention and substance -- Hardy and his thrush -- The ritual of W.B. Yeats -- The poetry of Ezra Pound -- Prufrock's dilemma -- The sorrows of Captain Carpenter -- Dylan Thomas: The loud hill of Wales -- Robert Lowell and others -- Poetry chronicle, 1948: waiting for the end, boys -- From the middle and senior generations -- Despondency and madness: on Lowell's "Skunk hour" -- One answer to a question: changes -- 5. Thursday out -- The lovers -- All their colours exiled -- The imaginary Jew -- Wash far away |
| Analysis |
American literature History and criticism |
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English literature History and criticism |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
75045162 |
| ISBN |
0374158487 |
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