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... Mark Twain as " our one American example of the bardic type of artist and sayer . . . one whom the common people can understand because he is theirs . " Common people , forsooth ! But what was one to say of a student of American ...
... Mark Twain as " our one American example of the bardic type of artist and sayer . . . one whom the common people can understand because he is theirs . " Common people , forsooth ! But what was one to say of a student of American ...
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... Mark Twain particularly , he gave the twen- ties the image of the Gilded Age that lies at the heart of that whole sentimental - pathetic conception of the artist in America which dominated the critical opinion of the time . In composing ...
... Mark Twain particularly , he gave the twen- ties the image of the Gilded Age that lies at the heart of that whole sentimental - pathetic conception of the artist in America which dominated the critical opinion of the time . In composing ...
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... Mark Twain's physical verve and joy in life , the rough vigor of frontier life and the frontier mind . He complained that Mark Twain was a boy ; he forgot that his own generation was full of old young men , caught by the disillusionment ...
... Mark Twain's physical verve and joy in life , the rough vigor of frontier life and the frontier mind . He complained that Mark Twain was a boy ; he forgot that his own generation was full of old young men , caught by the disillusionment ...
Contents
The Opening Struggle for Realism | 1 |
American Fin de Siècle | 37 |
Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser | 53 |
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