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... business, politics, and education. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL CONNIE EBLE William Faulkner: The Novelist as Short Story Writer. By Hans Hanssen Skei. Oslo-Bergen-Stavanger-Tromso: Universitetsforlaget (distributed by Columbia University Press, New York), 1985. Pp. 330. $32.00 cloth; $18.00...

...Philip Stevick Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 The World and the Writer: A Speculation on Fame Philip Stevick I It is a commonplace of literary history, although implicit and never articu­ lated, that there are two kinds of fame. One kind is ancient and continuous. Beowulf...

...Frank Lentricchia Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Frank Lentricchia The American Writer as Bad Citizen Introducing Don DeLillo For obvious reasons Don DeLillo s pub­ lishers are pleased to advertise their man as a highly acclaimed novelist, but until the publication of White...

...Arthur E. Koenig Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 DOSTOIEVSKY S TESTAMENT THE DIART OF A WRITER Arthur E. Koenig NO ONE WILL be wholly pleased by The Diary of a Writer. Most readers will be disappointed and annoyed by it in one way or another. Its redundancies, faults of tone...

...Harold T. Parker The Great Elector . By Schevill Ferdinand . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1947 . Pp. viii , 442 . $5.00 . Frederick the Great: The Ruler, the Writer, the Man . By Gooch G. P. . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1947 . Pp. ix , 376 , iv...

...Joel Colton Clemenceau: Thinker and Writer . By Applebaum Samuel I. . New York : The Author , 1948 . Pp. xiv , 184 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 337 Adams during the same period; perhaps a more appropriate comparison could be made...

...Theodore Ropp James Longstreet. I. Soldier . By Sanger Donald Bridgman . II . Politician, Officeholder, and Writer . By Hay Thomas Robson . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1952 . Pp. xii , 460 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953...

...Joseph Remenyi Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 J. JENO TERSANSZKY WRITER OF PICARESQUE STORIES Joseph Remenyt THE PICARESQUE TALE was introduced into Spanish letters by Lazarillo de Tormes in the sixteenth century. His portrayal of the picaro ( rogue ) combined entertainment...

...Lewis Leary Hemingway: The Writer as Artist . By Baker Carlos . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1952 . Pp. 322 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 482 The South Atlantic Quarterly Hemingway: The Writer as Artist. By Carlos Baker. Princeton...

...Arlin Turner Our Literary Heritage: A Pictorial History of the Writer in America . By Brooks Van Wyck Bettmann Otto L. . New York : E. P. Dutton & Company , [ 1956 ]. Pp. ix , 246 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 268 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Floyd Stovall The American Writer and the European Tradition . Edited by Denny Margaret Gilman William H. . Minneapolis : The University of Minnesota Press , 1950 . Pp. xiv , 192 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 274 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Peter Klopfer Loren Eiseley: The Development of a Writer . By Carlisle E. Fred . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1983 . Pp. ix , 199 . $15.95 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 105 concealed in the endless language of referral: sincerity...

...John Halperin Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Trollope as Letter-Writer John Halperin Affection from one man to another is not natural in letters, Anthony Trollope (1815-82) declares in Dr. Wortle s School (1880), one of his last tales.1 And yet his forty-seven novels, almost...

...Daniel T. O’Hara Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Daniel T. O Hara Socializing the Sublime in American Renaissance Writers Whence came you, Hawthorne? By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips lo, they are yours and not mine. I feel...

...Richard D. Rust Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725–1810 . By Elliott Emory . New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1982 . Pp. viii , 324 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 352 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Lewis Leary After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars . By Aldridge John W. . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. , 1951 . Pp. xv , 263 . $3.75 . Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920’s . By Cowley Malcolm . New York...

...Charles Richard Sanders Writers and Their Critics: A Study of Misunderstanding . By Peyre Henri . Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press , 1944 . Pp. xii , 340 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 BOOKS Writers and Their Critics: A Study...

...George de Huszar No Voice Is Wholly Lost: Writers and Thinkers in War and Peace . By Slochower Harry . New York : Creative Age Press , 1945 . Pp. 381 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Book Reviews 453 the lurid adventures of his Captain Stobo (Lismahago...

...Julius W. Pratt Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 Recent Poetry by North Carolina Writers* Julius W. Pratt United States Naval Academy If the North Carolina State Literary and Historical As­ sociation is to be congratulated upon the liberal spirit it has shown of late years...

...George J. Lux Copyright © 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 HIS EXCELLENCY, LUIGI PIRANDELLO Random Comparisons with Other Writers GEORGE J. LUX News Item: Rome, Dec. io, 1936 Luigi Pirandello, famed Italian playwright . . . died today. PIRANDELLO S second and last visit to the United States...