In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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... relationship between two attitudes in history and other literature during the last century : the disdain with which many novelists , poets , and dramatists have regarded the obligation to represent the literal truth " objec- tively ...
... relationship between two attitudes in history and other literature during the last century : the disdain with which many novelists , poets , and dramatists have regarded the obligation to represent the literal truth " objec- tively ...
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... relationship between Populism and Progressivism and to give the reader a convincing sense of what the relationship between immigrant and native American must have been like . Two of my own chapters in this book will examine the validity ...
... relationship between Populism and Progressivism and to give the reader a convincing sense of what the relationship between immigrant and native American must have been like . Two of my own chapters in this book will examine the validity ...
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... relationship does he establish between the typical character or incident and the larger reality that it represents ? All these questions , along with concern for technical experi- ments of the kind I have discussed in Miller , Handlin ...
... relationship does he establish between the typical character or incident and the larger reality that it represents ? All these questions , along with concern for technical experi- ments of the kind I have discussed in Miller , Handlin ...
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