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Fictions and events; essays in criticism and literary history.
- Title
- Fictions and events; essays in criticism and literary history.
- Author
- Berthoff, Warner.
- Publication
- New York, Dutton, 1971.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PS121 .B53 1971 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 349 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Literature.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The study of literature and the recovery of the historical -- Fiction, history, myth: notes toward the discrimination of narrative forms -- Literature and the measure of "reality" -- Modern literature and the condition of exile -- The novel in a time of troubles -- Fortunes of the novel: Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch -- American literature: traditions and talents -- "Building discourse": the genesis of Emerson's Nature -- Melville's later fiction: The rites of story-telling, The confidence man -- The art of Jewett's Pointed firs -- Edmund Wilson and his Civil War -- Witness and testament: two contemporary classics -- American notes: Being and growing ; Cummings on Cummings ; Memorial to a Golden Age ; Van Wyck Brooks's Arcadia ; Two careers: Clarence King and Henry Adams ; The nineties -and after ; The case of Wallace Stevens ; The case of Hart Crane.
- ISBN
- 0525104704
- 9780525104704
- LCCN
- 78133582
- OCLC
- ocm00165121
- 165121
- SCSB-151745
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library