The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 137Yale Literary Society, 1968 |
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... novel , The Confessions of Nat Turner , has had just that effect ; it has ... historical and cultural implications of Negro slavery . The Confessions is a ... novel and provocative feature of the Confessions is its use of the first person ...
... novel , The Confessions of Nat Turner , has had just that effect ; it has ... historical and cultural implications of Negro slavery . The Confessions is a ... novel and provocative feature of the Confessions is its use of the first person ...
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... historical record . His confidence in his own historical scholarship is ... novel , took five years to write ; The Confessions of Nat Turner has been ... novel as a " meditation on history . " Does this term define a genre which is ...
... historical record . His confidence in his own historical scholarship is ... novel , took five years to write ; The Confessions of Nat Turner has been ... novel as a " meditation on history . " Does this term define a genre which is ...
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... historical context at all ? Styron : I've found that the phrase " meditation on history " has buffaloed quite a few ... novel off of the Confessions - the curse of the historical novel as romance - and to give it a profounder implication ...
... historical context at all ? Styron : I've found that the phrase " meditation on history " has buffaloed quite a few ... novel off of the Confessions - the curse of the historical novel as romance - and to give it a profounder implication ...
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