| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Nothing abstract/ Tom Quirk. |
| Reminder of title: |
investigations in the American literary imagination / |
| Author: |
Quirk, Tom, |
| Published: |
Columbia :University of Missouri Press, : 2001., |
| Description: |
ix, 234 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction -- Sources, influences, and intertexts -- Authors, intentions, and texts -- What if Poe's humorous tales were funny? Poe's "x-ing a paragrab" and Twain's "Journalism in Tennessee" -- Hawthorne's last tales and "The custom-house" -- The judege dragged to the bar: Melville, Shaw, and the Webster murder trial -- Mark Twain in his short works -- The short stories of Ambrose Bierce -- Realism, the "real," and the poet of reality: some reflections on American realists and the poetry of Wallace Stevens -- In the shallow light of the present: the moral geography of Death comes for the archbishop -- Fitzgerald and Cather: The great Gatsby -- A source for "Where are you going, where have you been?" -- Justice on the reservation: Tony Hillerman's novels and the conflict between federal and tribal jurisdiction -- The trying out of genetic inquiry. |
| Subject: |
American literature - History and criticism. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=113925An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0826263089 (electronic bk.) |