The Stoic Strain in American Literature : : Essays in Honour of Marston LaFrance /

The Stoic Strain in American Literature : : Essays in Honour of Marston LaFrance / / ed. by Duane MacMillan.

Marston LaFrance (1927-75) was a stoic for most of his life, although the basic humanitas of the man softened what otherwise might have been mere grim endurance. This tribute to him is a new kind of festschrift: the papers in it are unified by their strict critical focus on stoicism in American lite...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Allen, Gay Wilson,
Backman, Melvin,
Beattie, Munro,
Buitenhuis, Peter,
Davison, Richard Allan,
Fuchs, Daniel,
Johnston, George,
Lawson, Lewis A.,
MacMillan, Duane J.,
Middlebro’, Tom,
Salomon, Roger B.,
Stern, Milton R.,
HerausgeberIn:
MacMillan, Duane,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1979
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • For Marston LaFrance
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • The Stoic Strain in American Literature
  • Towards 'Bartleby the Scrivener'
  • Walt Whitman and Stoicism
  • Henry James: 'The Voice of Stoicism'
  • A Reading of Frank Norris's The Pit
  • The Mock-Heroics of Desire: Some Stoic Personae in the Work of William Carlos Williams
  • Death and Birth in Hemingway
  • His 'Magnum O': Stoic Humanism in Faulkner's A Fable
  • Saul Bellow and the Example of Dostoevsky
  • The Moviegoer and the Stoic Heritage
  • Marston LaFrance: A Tribute and Memorial Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Notes on Contributors

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