The Stoic strain in American literature : essays in honour of Marston LaFrance /

The Stoic strain in American literature : essays in honour of Marston LaFrance / edited by Duane J. MacMillan. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1979. - xiii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Johnston, G. For Marston LaFrance.--Buitenhuis, P. The Stoic strain in American literature.--Stern, M. R. Towards Bartleby the scrivener.--Allen, G. W. Walt Whitman and Stoicism.--Beattie, M. Henry James: the voice of Stoicism.--Davison, R. A. A reading of Frank Norris's The pit.--Salomon, R. B. The mock-heroics of desire.--Backman, M. Death and birth in Hemingway.--MacMillan, D.J. His "Magnum O": Stoic humanism in Faulkner's A fable.--Fuchs, D. Saul Bellow and the example of Dostoevsky.--Lawson, L.A. The moviegoer and the Stoic heritage.--Middlebro', T. Marston LaFrance: a tribute and memorial bibliography.

0802054412 : $17.50

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LaFrance, Marston, 1927-1975.


American literature--History and criticism.
Stoics in literature.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

PS 121 / .S76