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[ To some degree he sets up a straw dog: ‘what literary criticism does’ that it doesn’t always.] Conclusion: If reader reaction to ...

In "The Myth of the Born Criminal" Jarko Jalava and the other authors implicate Norman Mailer, his essay "The Whi...

Down the helical stairs of the bus that drew up came a pair of charming silk legs: we know of course that this has been worn threadba...

Financially, the paper is quite healthy. The paper’s timberlands, mining interests, pulp and paper operations, book, magazine, corrug...

BEGINNING See my childhood? Now that I am separated from it by many decades, my farsighted eyes might perhaps reach to it if the li...

“Have you ever been to Canada?” he asked her. “I’ve been to Niagara Falls.” They rode on, Hugh still holding her bridle. “I’ve ...

Revisited (Lecture   in the spring of 1991) A revealing question for me now is whether I would have written the novel – if there ...