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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: LaFrance, Marston, 1927-1975 (honouree.), MacMillan, Duane J., 1937- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1979.
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.