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From: Arizona Quarterly[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, McNamara discusses the various forms of cultural identity that Rodriguez describes in Days of Obligation, particularly the concept of double consciousness within San...
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From: William Carlos Williams ReviewIn the American Grain makes history not a matter of events, but a matter of language--or rather, of languages as itself an event. The underlying premise of Williams' book is that a history of America must be, in part, a...
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From: Studies in the Western[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Bischoff and Noçon examine how Grey, Gruber, L’Amour, and other Western writers create their own “signature visions of the West.”] In choosing such a title for our essay, we...
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From: Renascence[(essay date 1964) In the following essay, Wagner laments the long-standing paucity of critical recognition of Williams and discusses Williams’s own forays into critical writing in an effort to explicate “the...
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From: New Orleans ReviewIV By virtue of its insistently recuperative strategy, Williams's book affirms what Donato, by way of Kojève, and White each in their own ways suspect about the necessarily ironic condition of post-Hegelian history: In...
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From: Sagetrieb[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Hatlen examines the ways in which Enslin and Dorn have relied upon the work of Olson; however, Hatlen contends, they “have not only defined distinctive spaces of their own … but...
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From: Arizona Quarterly[(essay date spring 2000) In the following essay, Webb discusses what it meant for Williams to consider himself an American writer and what it is in Williams's writing that makes him distinctly American.] There was a...
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From: William Carlos Williams Review[(essay date spring 2006) In the following essay, Boone discusses The Great American Novel as a metafictional work and deems it an innovative and unique text that "anticipates postmodern fiction."] In the early 1920s...
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From:Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Nonfiction Works (Vol. 4. )Williams has become known as a poet of the particular, overwhelmingly concerned with the specifics of place and of the objects to be found in any particular place. The three poems that are probably Williams's most famous...
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From: On the Modernist Long Poem[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Dickie discusses Paterson as a major long poem in which Williams combines his own inventive narrative strategies with those used by Ezra Pound in The Cantos and Hart Crane in...
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From: Midwestern Miscellany[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Istvan deplores the surprising critical neglect of Kooser and suggests that it is only a matter of time until his work receives the “adequate attention” it deserves.] With the...