Writing the American Classics - Softcover

Quirk, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080784280X ISBN 13: 9780807842805

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a writer's mind.

The genetic approach taken in these essays derives from a curiosity, and sometimes a feeling of awe, about how a work of literature came to exist -- what motivated its creation, informed its vision, urged its completion. It is just that sort of wonder that first brings some people to love writers and their books.

Originally published in 1990.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Barbour is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico.|Tom Quirk is a professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080784280X
• ISBN 13: 9780807842805
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Barbour James, Quirk Tom
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