E.B. White : the emergence of an essayist / Robert L. Root, Jr.
E.B. White : the emergence of an essayist / Robert L. Root, Jr.
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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1999.
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N818.5209/W582.3/2
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English
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244 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. "The Faint Squeak of Mortality": The Emergence of an Essayist -- 2. "Little Capsules of Truth": White as Paragrapher -- 3. "A Flow of Uncanceled Clauses": Composing Early Comment -- 4. "It Is Not All Velvet, This Monthly Life": White as Columnist -- 5. "In Search of the First Person Singular": Co...
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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1999.
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Iowa
Date Published
c1999.
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Summary
Robert Root explores the milieu in which White began writing the "Notes and Comments" section of the New Yorker and puts in perspective the influence of popular "colyumists" like Don Marquis and Christopher Morley on the tone and form of White's work as a "paragrapher." He examines White's persistent disaffection with the demands and limitations in...
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E.B. White : the emergence of an essayist / Robert L. Root, Jr.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and index.
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c1999.
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N818.5209/W582.3/2
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74VvM0l4b0dM
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0877456674 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780877456674 (cloth : alk. paper)
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818.5209
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991007307519702626
