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... WILLA CATHER AND ELLEN GLASGOW " It's memory : the memory that goes with the vocation . " -WILLA CATHER on Sarah Orne Jewett THE " new freedom " after the war was not a movement ; it was a succession of opportunities for writers who ...
... WILLA CATHER AND ELLEN GLASGOW " It's memory : the memory that goes with the vocation . " -WILLA CATHER on Sarah Orne Jewett THE " new freedom " after the war was not a movement ; it was a succession of opportunities for writers who ...
Page 182
... Willa Cather and Ellen Glas- gow had a brilliant sense of style and an instinct for crafts- manship . But their feeling for style demanded none of the formal declarations and laborious experiments that Heming- way and Dos Passos brought ...
... Willa Cather and Ellen Glas- gow had a brilliant sense of style and an instinct for crafts- manship . But their feeling for style demanded none of the formal declarations and laborious experiments that Heming- way and Dos Passos brought ...
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... Willa Cather recognized that cor- ruption , gave its name and source , she resigned herself to it . It had been her ... Willa Cather's work is best seen in The Professor's House , which has been the most persistently underrated of her ...
... Willa Cather recognized that cor- ruption , gave its name and source , she resigned herself to it . It had been her ... Willa Cather's work is best seen in The Professor's House , which has been the most persistently underrated of her ...
Contents
The Opening Struggle for Realism | 1 |
American Fin de Siècle | 37 |
Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser | 53 |
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