Colby Quarterly, Volume 34Colby College, 1998 |
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... writing a more concretely specified social home " ( 144 ) . Brodhead's argument works well with the majority of Jewett's writing ; " A White Heron , " however , provides an exception . Sylvia and her grandmother do not fit comfortably ...
... writing a more concretely specified social home " ( 144 ) . Brodhead's argument works well with the majority of Jewett's writing ; " A White Heron , " however , provides an exception . Sylvia and her grandmother do not fit comfortably ...
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... writing [ was ] al- ways experimental " ( Letters [ Fields ] 118 ) , and it was this experimental attitude that allowed her to write beyond local color . Challenging the limitations of realism , Jewett sought a form to accommodate an ...
... writing [ was ] al- ways experimental " ( Letters [ Fields ] 118 ) , and it was this experimental attitude that allowed her to write beyond local color . Challenging the limitations of realism , Jewett sought a form to accommodate an ...
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... writing attracted much critical praise for its local color realism , how do we account for these aspects which focus attention not on the " lines " of print but the full space " between " them ? I think they suggest that for Jewett the ...
... writing attracted much critical praise for its local color realism , how do we account for these aspects which focus attention not on the " lines " of print but the full space " between " them ? I think they suggest that for Jewett the ...
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