In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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... literary effects and factual accuracy . This assumption inhibits many literary critics as well as historians . Its literary origins seem to lie in the nineteenth - century rebellion against the tyranny of the literal and the explicit ...
... literary effects and factual accuracy . This assumption inhibits many literary critics as well as historians . Its literary origins seem to lie in the nineteenth - century rebellion against the tyranny of the literal and the explicit ...
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... literary art may abound in passages of bad history , but nevertheless carry generation after generation before it . " 4 Here Mr. Nevins stumbles on the chief obstacle to study of the literary value of history . He assumes that a history ...
... literary art may abound in passages of bad history , but nevertheless carry generation after generation before it . " 4 Here Mr. Nevins stumbles on the chief obstacle to study of the literary value of history . He assumes that a history ...
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... literary " grounds , as a man who because of his own private suffering projected a superb view of the unconscious onto the historical sufferings of a heroic explorer named La Salle and thus achieved a literary triumph that remains of ...
... literary " grounds , as a man who because of his own private suffering projected a superb view of the unconscious onto the historical sufferings of a heroic explorer named La Salle and thus achieved a literary triumph that remains of ...
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