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From: Ernest Hemingway: Critiques of Four Major Novels[(essay date 1962) In the following revision of an essay that first appeared in his influential 1956 work Hemingway: The Writer as Artist, Baker argues that Hemingway's particular understanding of the notion of...
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From: Modern Age[(essay date spring 1990) In the following essay, Tanner comments on the relationship between Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Mencken on the one hand, and the New Humanists on the other, noting their lack of understanding of...
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From: The New Criterion[(essay date February 1997) In the following essay, Tillinghast discusses Ransom as a significant minor American poet.] For a generation of readers influenced by the literary criticism of T. S. Eliot, the distinction...
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From: Sewanee Review[(review date October-December 1953) In the following review of Collected Poems, 1917-1952, Whittemore highlights the pastoral element in MacLeish's poetry.] Archibald MacLeish's Collected Poems, 1917-1952 contains...
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From: The Hemingway Review[(essay date fall 2000) In the following essay, Tilton examines the behavior of Mrs. Garner in the story "Ten Indians."] Ernest Hemingway's short story "Ten Indians" involves a cast of predominantly male characters,...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In the following essay, Redden examines Porter's use of dualities and balanced tensions in “Flowering Judas.”] Katherine Anne Porter's “FLowering Judas,” an unusually cryptic, complex, and challenging story, has been...
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From: The Theatre AnnualUndoubtedly, Hart was fortunate in that his "formula" had a parallel in the work of George S. Kaufman, with whom he entered into a most fruitful collaboration after the success of Once in a Lifetime. In between, however,...
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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: 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: The New York Review of Books[Sale is an American educator and the author of several books, including Discussions of the Novel (1960) and Literary Inheritance (1984). The following review provides a response to Steven Marcus's introduction to The...
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From: The Comparatist[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Bell provides a detailed comparison of Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party" and Porter's "The Grave."] From certain points of view "The Garden Party" and "The Grave" are...
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From:Short Stories for StudentsHenningfeld is an Associate Professor of English at Adrian College, in Adrian, Michigan. She writes widely on literature and history for a variety of academic and educational publishers. In the following essay, she...
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From: North Dakota Quarterly[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, originally given as the keynote address for the Ninth International Hemingway Conference in 2000, Walcott, a Nobel Prize-winning poet, recounts how, as a young writer growing up...
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From: The Nation[A German-born American novelist and critic, Lewisohn was considered an authority on German literature, and his translations of Gerhart Hauptmann, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Jakob Wassermann are widely respected. In the...
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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:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is the coordinator of the Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she examines the narrative structure and themes of the story “The Jilting of Granny...
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From: The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative[Brownell was an American literary critic who preceded the New Humanist movement in letters and philosophy and is often associated with it. New Humanism was a critical movement which subscribed to the belief that the...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)The pretext for Susan Sontag's monumental yet exquisitely compassionate historical romance, The Volcano Lover, is a re-telling of the lives of Sir William Hamilton, Emma Hamilton, and Lord Nelson, primarily as they were...
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From: The Academy[In the following excerpt, the critic offers a condemnatory review of The Testament of John Davidson.] The wonderful dulness of the “poetry” which is nowadays issued from the press cannot be denied. England may or may...
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From: Literary Reflections, A Shoring of Images 1960-1993[(essay date 1973) In the following essay, originally published in 1973, Lewis identifies Robinson as one of the key figures in American poetry of the period from 1890 to 1910.] The period from about 1890 to 1910 is...