Nothing abstract : investigations in the American literary imagination /

Main Author: Quirk, Tom, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2001.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=113925
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300 |a 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a American literature  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Imagination. 
650 7 |a LITERARY CRITICISM  |x American  |x General. 
650 7 |a American literature. 
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