category: american fiction

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

... Zelda Fitzgerald Zelda Fitzgerald named her novel Save Me the Waltz from a title found in a Victor record catalog, according to Nancy Milford, in her biography of theauthor and famous wifeof F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda: A Biography. Zelda ...

Faulkner and His Contemporaries

... story writers in world literature . They published their first short stories within four months of each other , Guimaraes Rosa contributing " The Mystery of Highmore Hall " to the 7 December 1929 issue of O Cruzeiro and Faulkner " A Rose ...

Images of Poe's Works: A Comprehensive Descriptive Catalogue of Illustrations

A Comprehensive Descriptive Catalogue of Illustrations. School Students ) Vol . 10. P : Tokyo : Gakushu Kenkyu - sha ... Raven . R : copy seen . G : 10 W : Be Mo El RM Lig ( 2 ) OP Ush ( 2 ) Ra * 844. JPN To Edgar Allan Poe . P : Tokyo ...

Extracts from Ellen Foster

An extract from an international celebration charting the 20th century - stories of poverty and wealth, work and play, tales of changing environments - both urban and rural, in peace and wartime.

Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell: Religious Terror as Memory from the Puritans to Stephen King

... New England Soul : Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England , op . cit . , p . 72 . 8. This is one ... Reasons to be Considered for ... the Intended Plantation in New England " while still in England . As commander - in ...

Cosecha

... Canciones mexicanas y canciones que han tenido gran popularidad en México ! (México, D.F.: Libro-Mex Editores, S. de R. L., 1980): 115. 'Flor y Canto: "del bravero". Aquí se confunden los versos de "El Bravero", de Víctor Cordero ...

Home to Stay: Asian American Women's Fiction

... And the Soul Shall Dance " found its way into Aiiieeeee : An Anthol- ogy Of Asian American Writers . Since then other stories were published in Asian American journals , college text books , women , minority and regional anthologies . I ...

Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres

... Courtney Robertson , Susan Romano , Cathy Ross , Lynn Rudloff , Gina Siesing , and Josh Yumibe talked with me about ... book's arguments and potential consequences . Wilma R. Ebbitt , my first rhetoric teacher , continues to inspire me ...

To Kill a Mockingbird: Study guide

... foil to a . Burris Ewell . b . Jem and Scout . 47. Atticus symbolically represents a . eccentric fathers . b . ideal brothers . 48. The novel's two narrative strands focus on a . Boo Radley and Tom Robinson . b . Jem and Scout . 49. The ...

Upon a Cast

... friend ; you disregarded the hint . In the second place , people- You are a pretty woman , Carol ; you excited a good ... friendship hurt you , Carol . There , now I have said it . Are you angry ? " " Oh no ; I have no reason to be angry ...

Studien zur englischen und amerikanischen Prosa nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg: Festschrift für Kurt Otten zum 60. Geburtstag

... Great Gatsby takes great pains to separate Gatsby's romantic vision from the " foul dust " that " floated in the ... 22 Hans - Magnus Enzensberger , „ Bewußtseins - Industrie " , Einzelheiten ( Frankfurt , 1962 ) , pp . 7–15 . A ...

Surgeons Blue Coal: A Novel

... win , Foil , " she said , looking below at the Shoomkie which curved slow , muddy , wide , deep , and lifeless to stain the rocky banks a sickly orange with its sulfurous pollution . " For once . What's the prize ? " Directly across the ...

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work

Geoff Hamilton, Brian Jones. The. Shell. Collector. 2002 Work Author: Anthony Doerr In his debut collection of short stories, Anthony Doerr explores the shifting interior landscapes of his characters in relation to the natural landscapes ...

Sing You Home: A Novel

After Zoe and Max's last attempt to conceive fails tragically, their marriage breaks apart.

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

Literary Outlaw is the compulsively readable biography of one of the most outrageous, most original and most influential figures of our time.

Encyclopedia of the American Short Story

Abby H. P. Werlock. "Say. Yes". 1985 Work Author: Tobias Wolff Tobias Wolff's short story "Say Yes" uses a limited thirdperson point of view to tell the story of an ordinary spat between a husband and wife.The perspective follows that of ...

The North American Review

... de EUGÈNE SCRIBE , de l'Académie Française . Paris : Michel Levy , Frères . 1859. 20 vols . 16mo . 2. Les Contemporains . Scribe . Par EUGÈNE DE MIRECOURT . Avec un Portrait et un Autographe . Quatrième Edition . Paris : Gustave Havard ...

Esquire's Big Book of Fiction

... hacks clamoring for their turn in the spot- light . Every week , every day . The angry man hands the baton over to the sulk- ing man , and in turn to the sex addict , the introvert , the conversationalist . Every man is a mob , a chain ...

Homosexual Characters in YA Novels: A Literary Analysis, 1969-1982

... character is more ... character suffers retribution for his / her orientation . The homosexual character often becomes the scapegoat for the town's malcontents . Hall's Sticks and Stones is the best example of this bigotry . PATTERNS Mentor ...

Scribbling Women & the Short Story Form: Approaches by American & British Women Writers

... genre should not be taken as an indication that she considers issues of genre unimportant . In fact , Davis's work sometimes takes a metafictional turn in which the nature of the story becomes an explicit thematic concern . The title ...

Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity: From Madame Butterfly to My American Wife!

... doll , handled the situation swiftly by correcting the " cosmetic accidents " ; with softened eyebrows and newly tinted blue pupils , the Barbie achieved the signature “ white , all - American - girl look ” that earned public approval ...

The Group: A Novel

McCarthy' s most celebrated novel portrays the experiences of eight young women from Vassar College, Class of ' 33. As the story opens, they meet in New York City for the wedding of Kay, one of " the group.

The Lovely Bones: A Novel

Sebold's mesmerizing and luminous first novel--a #1 national bestseller--builds a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, and even joy, following an unspeakable tragedy.

Last Exit to Brooklyn

The streets are seething with barely concealed menace, threatening to explode with the primal rage and desires of the hoodlums, hookers, transvestites, alcoholics and homosexuals who call New York home.

La Loteria: A Mystery

... story Dead Rats Press Copyright © Lyle D Rosdahl are used as 2004 http://lylerosdahl.com An OULIPO mystery in which I used LOTERIA unravels like a frayed thread. Even in the desert the killer scuttles unabated all through.

Analyses of Twentieth-century British and American Fiction

... Watership Down ( 1972 ) is the first and most successful ( prizes , sales ) of three novels by Richard Adams which ... TEXT : Richard Adams , Watership Down , Penguin Books , Harmondsworth , 1973 A few male rabbits leave their native ...

My Wife and I, Or, Harry Henderson's History

... the chicken - pox - keep your pores open , and don't get cold , and it'll pass off and leave you none the worse . " " And she ! " said I , indignantly . matter what became of her " . " You talk as if it was no " What , the baby ? Oh ...

A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

... Jumping Monkey Hill', a seminar in creative writing is run by an English scholar, who gathers writers from Africa and judges the works they create on the premises. In one of the rare occasions in which Adichie uses a meta-fictional ...

The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction

... it's really a team effort . The two producers have had their say , and the ... free form . Unlike the play or the filmscript , it has no limits other than ... novel . I saw 144 The Novel Today.

Tiempo de narrar: cuentos centroamericanos

An anthology of thirty-five short stories, each written by a leading regional "cuentista".

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