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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In the excerpt below, Weber contrasts Knowles's narrative technique in A Separate Peace with that of J. D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye.] Professor Halio's recent appreciation of the two short novels of John...
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From: Papers on Language and Literature[(essay date summer 1967) In the following essay, Weber appraises Macaulay's beliefs that the ideal historian was one who could effectively combine fact and fiction and that this historian should share the traditional...
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From: The Virginia Quarterly ReviewThere ought to be a statute of limitations on critical remarks about living, breathing writers. Lacking that, it must simply be good manners that keeps Joe David Bellamy, in his introduction to [The Purple Decades] from...
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From: The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing[(essay date 1992) In the following excerpt, Weber compares the midwestern regionalism of Main-Travelled Roads with similar qualities in the fiction of Edward Eggleston, Joseph Kirkland, and E. W. Howe. Weber also notes...
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From: Journal of Popular CultureAfter his first book Dwight Macdonald dismissed Tom Wolfe as a fad, part and parcel of his famous girl-of-the-year piece on Baby Jane Holzer; there's nothing, Macdonald forecast, so dead as last year's mannerist. But...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date fall 1965) In the following essay, Weber analyzes the critical comparisons between A Separate Peace and J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, concluding that Knowles's use of narrative allows for a better...
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From: Core Texts, Community, and Culture: Working Together in Liberal Education. Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Dallas, Texas, April 15-18, 2004[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, originally presented at a conference in 2004, Leavitt examines Aristophanes’s Birds as a play that explores the nature and origins of tyranny through the character of...
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From: Core Texts, Community, and Culture: Working Together for Liberal Education; Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Dallas, Texas, April 15-18, 2004[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, originally presented at a conference in 2004, Crider examines Shakespeare’s use of “the trope of immortality” in his sonnets. Focusing on Sonnet 81, Crider shows how through...