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Jones, Howard Mumford. The Bright Medusa.
Urbana: The University of Illinois, 1952.
Signed and Inscribed by the Author. Octavo, yellow illus. cloth (hardcover), 98 pp. Fine, in a chipped & torn dust jacket. ÒIn this book, based on lectures delivered especially for the Fifth Annual Festival of Contemporary Arts (1952) at the University of Illinois, Mr. Jones divides the subjects [of the problems of youth, the artist, and the rebel as reflected in AMerican literature of the nineteen-twenties] into three sections: The Artist, The Poet, and The Radical. Here inimitably, with his agile wit, his richly allusive prose, his wide-ranging scholarly grasp, and his down-to-earth attitude, Mr. Jones looks at the twenties...Ó
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Miller, Richard. Bohemia: The Protoculture Then and Now.
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, [1977].
Octavo, grey pebbled boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xi, 376 pp. Near-Fine, with date stamped to ffep, in a Very Good- dust jacket with several several small chips. Here, for the first time we are presented with a historical study which shows the movement of the sixties to be simply one more step in the evolution of a force which has its roots in early nineteenth century France...Miller has included a comprehensive discussion of Paris in the twenties, pre-war Germany, and the American Beats fo the Fifties...
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Roth, John K.; Editor. American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. First Edition, Stated.
Large octavo, boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xviii, 709 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner stamp and a Fine dust jacket. From jacket: The book is organized in thirteen secions, each of which illustrates a particular apect of American diversity -- life in the South, the African American experience, Americans at war, the gay and lesbian experience, Americans living abroad, and others -- and features writers as diverse as Walt Whitman, Louise Erdrich, Emily Dickinson, Philip Roth, William Faulkner, Joan Didion, Eudora Welty, Terry McMillan, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sandra Cisneros, and Amy Tan. Within each section there is a separate introduction that provides a general overview, followed by five to twenty essays on major writers whose concentrations are exemplary of that identity.
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