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From: Hemingway Review[(essay date spring 1994) In the following essay, Jobst and Williamson probe the use of humor and religious symbolism in "La maison Tellier" and Ernest Hemingway's "The Light of the World."] There was no sense in...
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From: Hemingway Review[(essay date fall 2002) In the following essay, Beuka compares Beattie's narrative approach in "The Big Outside World" to that of Ernest Hemingway in "Cat in the Rain," emphasizing the two authors' reliance on...
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From: The Masters of Modern French Criticism[I With Paul Elmer More, Babbitt was one of the founders of the New Humanism (or neo-humanism) movement which arose during the 1920s. The New Humanists were strict moralists who adhered to traditional conservative values...
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From: Raritan[In the following essay, Schultz discusses Stein's ruminations on her writing career in “Stanzas in Meditation” and her autobiographical prose works.] I often think how celebrated I am. It is difficult not to think...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Butler remarks on the role of movement and travel in U.S.A. and in American literature in general, positing a “search for pure motion” as part of the national character. In...
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From: Our Short Story Writers[In the following essay, which is a chapter from her book originally published in 1920, Williams discusses Ferber's short stories .] Few critics have accused Miss Edna Ferber of preaching a doctrine. “Me'n George...
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From: The NationEveryone who has ever taken a course in the short-story or owned a "Library of the World's Best Literature" knows Maupassant's old shocker "Boule de Suif." Alexander Woollcott and George Kaufman have now turned it into...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In the essay below, Madden discusses symbolism and imagery in “Flowering Judas,” arguing that this story succeeds because it contains the “charged image” structure in which “a created, transcendent image [has] ... an...
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From: College LiteratureIn the following essay, Simpson explores how Parker renders race in “Big Blonde,” and shows it to be an integral part of the story. The story “Big Blonde” (1929) articulates some of the ambivalence with which Dorothy...
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From: Midwest Quarterly[(essay date 1965) In the following essay, Perry appraises Porter's story "Hacienda" as a combination of her major thematic concerns, concluding that change is the most important theme in the piece.] Katherine Anne...
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From: The Nation, New York[In the following excerpt, Douglas argues that the artistic significance of Babbitt hinges on Lewis's vivid rendering of the struggle between freedom and social convention in the protagonist.] Some will say that...
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From: Hollins Critic[(essay date February 1991) In the following essay, Frank provides an overview of the central themes, regional settings and motifs, prose style, and narrative presentation in Hoffman's fiction. Frank's analysis, which...
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From: The American South: Portrait of a Culture[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Core provides an introduction to the Fugitives and the Agrarians. He emphasizes the Fugitive devotion to the idea of the “man of letters,” or literature as a vocation rather...
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From: Parnassus[In the following excerpt, Koestenbaum describes Stein's poetry as having appealing qualities of indefiniteness and as producing a liberating effect through its lack of focus and disregard of generic restrictions.] 1...
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From: Mississippi Quarterly[(essay date 1954) In the following essay, first published in 1954, Welty discusses some general characteristics of Southern literature and praises the work of such modern novelists as William Faulkner, Katherine Anne...
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From: Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction[(essay date 1995) In the following excerpt, Wilson discusses the protagonists of novelists Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, and Sara Paretsky, concluding that "Female hard-boiled fiction offers a mild challenge to the...
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From: The Hemingway Review[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Wittkowski contends that Santiago's struggle and suffering are patterned after that of the bullfighter and Christ on the Cross, and further that the ideal of the fighter-athlete...
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From: Modernist Studies[In the following essay, Schwartz explains the fragmentation of The Bridge by discussing the ways in which Crane's temperament and training were actually unsuitable to the writing of such a poem.] I would like to...
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From: Virginia Quarterly Review[(essay date winter 1987) In the following essay, Spears places Dickey and his work within the context of the Southern literary tradition.] Some years ago James Dickey, who will be 64 next month, responded to an...
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From: Western Humanities Review[(essay date spring 1961) In the following essay, Christensen considers critical reaction to MacLeish's verse play J. B. and defends the work from its detractors.] The publication a few years ago of J. B., a play in...