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Romney
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Owen Wister |
"Even in its incomplete state - nearly fifty thousand words - Romney is Wister's longest piece of fiction after The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Writing at the express command of his friend Theodore… |
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The Shape of Books to Come
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J. Donald Adams |
A view of who Adams thought would survive in the literary marketplace. Deals with the past quarter century of American fiction & attempts to show the direction in which it is now heading. |
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Disturbing the universe
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Roberta Seelinger Trites |
"Trites argues that the development of the genre over the past thirty years is an out-growth of postmodernism, since YA novels are, by definition, texts that interrogate the social construction of in… |
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West of the American dream
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Paul Christensen |
"Like many a pioneer exiting the eastern forests, Paul Christensen felt the strangeness of an alien landscape when he first arrived in Texas in 1974. Schooled in the cool colors of life and poetry in… |
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A handful of flowers and weeds, in prose and verse, from a very old portfolio, by the author of ..
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Jones Very |
Jones Very (1813-1880) was an American Transcendentalist poet whom Ralph Waldo Emerson admired. Unlike many of the Transcendentalists, however, Very was considered a "mystic" and many of his poems e… |
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