The Territory AheadEssays on American writers, appraising the work of Thoreau, Twain, Whitman, Wolfe, Faulkner, and others. |
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TECHNIQUE AND RAW MATERIAL | 2 |
USE OF THE PAST Henry James | 93 |
ABUSE OF THE PAST Norman Rockwell | 113 |
Copyright | |
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American mind American Scene artifacts artist Aunt Sally aware believe Big Two-Hearted River Camerado clichés consciousness craft criticism culture D. H. Lawrence dream Eliot enchantment Ernest Hemingway exile experience eyes face facts fashion feel fiction Fitzgerald Gatsby genius give grasp hand heart Hemingway Hemingway's Henry James Huck Finn Huckleberry Finn imagination impotence impressions ingway joke Joyce knew legend light literature live look lost Mark Twain matter ment merely modern myth mythic nature never Norman Rockwell nostalgia novel observation open road passion past poet poetry prevailing tendency processed rage raw material reader Sancho seems sense sentiment song speaks spell strange style T. S. Eliot talent technique tells territory ahead things Thomas Wolfe Thoreau tion Tom Wolfe Torrents of Spring trout voice Walden Walt Whitman wilderness William Faulkner Wolfe Wolfe's woods word writer young