244 Pages
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Routledge
244 Pages
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Routledge
244 Pages
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Routledge
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Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) was the leading Italian scholar of American literature of the generation that came to maturity under Mussolini. He was not only an acute and wide-ranging literary critic, but also a sensitive poet and novelist. In addition, he was a prodigious translator. In collaboration with Elio Vittorini, he translated and brought to the attention of the Italian public the works of... Read more
PART ONE: 1930-1934 An American Novelist, Sinclair Lewis Sherwood Anderson The Spoon River Anthology Herman Melville Preface to Moby-Dick Preface to Dark Laughter O. Henry; or, The Literary Trick John Dos Passos and the American Novel Dreiser and His Social Battle Interpretation of Walt Whitman, Poet Faulkner, a Bad Pupil of Anderson The Fictionalized Biographies of Sinclair Lewis PART TWO: 1938-195O Preface to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Preface to Benito Cereno, Preface to Three Lives Additions to the Second Preface to Moby-Dick The Dead at Spoon River American Ripeness A Useful Book A Negro Speaks to Us Yesterday and Today The Great American Anguish APPENDIX: ENGLISH WRITERS Preface to Defoe, Moll Flanders Preface to Dickens, David Copperfield Preface to Conrad, 'Twixt Land and Sea Robert Louis Stevenson INDEX OF NAMES
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Cesare Pavese
