Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to MailerExamines American fiction from the 1940's to the 1970's. |
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... Nat Turner's 1967 introspectiveness does not prepare us for it . The link between a tortured self and a violent self , such as novelists describing a killing must show in a killer , is not present in The Confessions of Nat Turner ...
... Nat Turner's 1967 introspectiveness does not prepare us for it . The link between a tortured self and a violent self , such as novelists describing a killing must show in a killer , is not present in The Confessions of Nat Turner ...
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... Nat Turner , The ( Styron ) , 226–228 Confusions ( Ludwig ) , 258n Connolly , Cyril , 166 Conrad , Joseph , 289 , 296 , 298 , 310 , 316 Counting My Steps ( Lind ) , 235 " Country Husband , The " ( Chee- ver ) , 112 Couples ( Updike ) ...
... Nat Turner , The ( Styron ) , 226–228 Confusions ( Ludwig ) , 258n Connolly , Cyril , 166 Conrad , Joseph , 289 , 296 , 298 , 310 , 316 Counting My Steps ( Lind ) , 235 " Country Husband , The " ( Chee- ver ) , 112 Couples ( Updike ) ...
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... Nat Turner , 226– 228 ; Lie Down in Darkness , 227 ; Set This House on Fire , 227 ; criticism of , 290–291 Sukenick , Ronald , The Death of the Novel and Other Sto- ries , 258n Summer in Williamsburg ( Fuchs ) , 130 Swedenborg , Emanuel ...
... Nat Turner , 226– 228 ; Lie Down in Darkness , 227 ; Set This House on Fire , 227 ; criticism of , 290–291 Sukenick , Ronald , The Death of the Novel and Other Sto- ries , 258n Summer in Williamsburg ( Fuchs ) , 130 Swedenborg , Emanuel ...
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