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Themes and directions in American literature; essays in honor of Leon Howard.

Title
Themes and directions in American literature; essays in honor of Leon Howard. Edited by Ray B. Browne and Donald Pizer.
Publication
Lafayette, Ind., Purdue University Studies, 1969.

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Additional Authors
  • Howard, Leon.
  • Browne, Ray B. (Ray Broadus), 1922-2009
  • Pizer, Donald
Description
x, 239 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation
  • James, Henry, 1843-1916 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
  • James, Henry, 1843-1916
  • Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965
  • Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
  • Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
  • American literature > Themes, motives
Genre/Form
  • Festschriften.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
The lecture, by A. Stanford.--Introduction: a cause for thanks, by W. Morris.--Puritan devotion and American literary history, by N. S. Grabo.--Sympathy comes to America, by J. Stafford.--The typicality of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by E. Carter.--Thoreau and the borrowed reeds, by C. Bode.--Ishmael, writer and art critic, by H. P. Vincent.--Melville's chimney, revisited, by M. M. Sealts, Jr.--A house to be born in, by J. Leyda.--Arcadia on the range, by J. E. Phillips.--The epistemological theme of The mysterious stranger, by W. Glick.--The tragic muse: Henry James's loosest, baggiest novel? By R. Falk.--Jay Gatsby and Hopalong Cassidy, by P. Durham.--Manhattan transfer and the service of things, by D. Sanders.--American fiction and French literary existentialism, by R. Lehan.--William Faulkner, committee chairman, by J. Blotner.--Randall Jarrell's poetry, by R. Humphrey.--Leon Howard: check-list of publications, 1930-1968 (p. 234-238)
ISBN
  • 0911198202
  • 9780911198201
LCCN
69016056
OCLC
  • ocm00023160
  • 23160
  • SCSB-172686
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library