The Stoic strain in American literature : essays in honour of Marston LaFrance /
Marston LaFrance (1927-75) was a stoic for most of his life, although the basic humanitas of the man softened what otherwise might have been mere grim endurance. This tribute to him is a new kind of festschrift: the papers in it are unified by their strict critical focus on stoicism in American lite...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©1979.
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Colección: | Heritage.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Johnston, G. For Marston LaFrance
- Buitenhuis, P. The Stoic strain in American literature
- Stern, M.R. Towards Bartleby the scrivener
- Allen, G.W. Walt Whitman and Stoicism
- Beattie, M. Henry James: the voice of Stoicism
- Davison, R.A.A reading of Frank Norris's The pit
- Salomon, R.B. The mock-heroics of desire
- Backman, M. Death and birth in Hemingway
- MacMillan, D.J. His "Magnum O": Stoic humanism in Faulkner's A fable
- Fuchs, D. Saul Bellow and the example of Dostoevsky
- Lawson, L.A. The moviegoer and the Stoic heritage
- Middlebro', T. Marston LaFrance: a tribute and memorial bibliography.