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"Anybody Interested in American literature will want to embrace this awe-inspiring book. Thomas Wolfe still looms large and this perfectly edited autobiographical outline offers grand nuggets of his soaring prose."
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Readers of Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical outline will better understand how his first and most widely read novel, Look Homeward, Angel, came into being. Superbly edited and annotated by Lucy Conniff and Richard S. Kennedy, this vibrant document records a young writer's determination to forge art from the details of his life, providing an unparalleled view of a novelist's mind at work. Everything I write [is] immensely flavored with me, Wolfe stated. The look about me will be transmuted and recreated in writing. Reflected here are Wolfe's sprawling talent and fascination with psychoanalysis. He begins with his conception and birth and goes on to describe first impressions of home, his growing acquaintance with language, school experiences, his sometimes explosive father and neglectful mother, his college years, and finally graduate study of the Romantic poets and playwriting. He makes a climactic discovery about his creative life as he notes the Harvard years, locating the principal theme for his novel and the symbol to express it - the unfound door. With their inclusion of an introduction, notes, a bibliography, a chronology of events, and nine rarely seen photos, Conniff a
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- EditorialLouisiana State University Press
- Año de publicación2004
- ISBN 10 0807129410
- ISBN 13 9780807129418
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- Número de páginas128
- EditorConniff Lucy, Kennedy Richard S.
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The Autobiographical Outline for Look Homeward, Angel
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Louisiana State University Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0807129410
ISBN 13: 9780807129418
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Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. Limited edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. 1991 hardcover, Thomas Wolf Society. #466 of an edition of 700. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.44. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1554756115
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