Lean Down Your Ear Upon the Earth, and Listen: Thomas Wolfe's Greener ModernismThis ecocritical study of Thomas Wolfe's body of fiction explores how the celebrated writer's storytelling is founded on his dramatization - and apprehension - of the natural world's integral presence in human lives. |
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