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- catalog abstract "The story behind the composition and publication of a literary work is often almost as interesting as the work itself. The essays gathered here under the skillful editorship of James Barbour and Tom Quirk present the fascinating "biographies" of ten well-known works by some of the most inventive and important authors in American literature. From Mark Twain to Ken Kesey, Edith Wharton to Eudora Welty, these writers helped shape the American literary imagination. The workings of their individual imaginations as affected by time and circumstance are the subject of this volume. These critical investigations by distinguished contributors touch upon the authors' lives and loves, their unique methods of writing, and their ambivalent, sometimes stormy, relationships with agents, publishers, and artistic forebears. Unlike critical approaches that treat literary works as linguistic artifacts, these essays seek to recreate a sense of literature as a unique product of the human imagination.".
- catalog contributor b9050196.
- catalog contributor b9050197.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "(cont.) "There was something mystic about it" : the compostiton of Sister Carrie by Dreiser et al. / Richard W. Dowell -- Building The house of mirth / Candace Waid -- "A truly American book" : pressing The grapes of wrath / Robert DeMott -- The making of Delta wedding, or doing "something Diarmuid thought I could do" / Albert J. Devlin -- The early composition history of Catch-22 / James Nagel -- The Western American context of One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Stephen L. Tanner.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The composition of Nature : writing and the self in the launching of a career / Albert von Frank -- "Well, my book is written - let it go ..." : the making of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Howard G. Baetzhold -- The unsmiling aspects of life : A hazard of new fortunes / John W. Crowley -- "Qiute the best, 'all round,' of all my productions" : the multiple versions of the Jamesian germ for The ambassadors / Richard A. Hocks --".
- catalog description "The story behind the composition and publication of a literary work is often almost as interesting as the work itself. The essays gathered here under the skillful editorship of James Barbour and Tom Quirk present the fascinating "biographies" of ten well-known works by some of the most inventive and important authors in American literature. From Mark Twain to Ken Kesey, Edith Wharton to Eudora Welty, these writers helped shape the American literary imagination. The workings of their individual imaginations as affected by time and circumstance are the subject of this volume. These critical investigations by distinguished contributors touch upon the authors' lives and loves, their unique methods of writing, and their ambivalent, sometimes stormy, relationships with agents, publishers, and artistic forebears. Unlike critical approaches that treat literary works as linguistic artifacts, these essays seek to recreate a sense of literature as a unique product of the human imagination.".
- catalog extent "334 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Biographies of books.".
- catalog identifier "0826210449 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Biographies of books.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Biographies of books.".
- catalog subject "810.9 20".
- catalog subject "American literature Criticism, Textual.".
- catalog subject "Literary form.".
- catalog subject "PS25 .B58 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "(cont.) "There was something mystic about it" : the compostiton of Sister Carrie by Dreiser et al. / Richard W. Dowell -- Building The house of mirth / Candace Waid -- "A truly American book" : pressing The grapes of wrath / Robert DeMott -- The making of Delta wedding, or doing "something Diarmuid thought I could do" / Albert J. Devlin -- The early composition history of Catch-22 / James Nagel -- The Western American context of One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Stephen L. Tanner.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The composition of Nature : writing and the self in the launching of a career / Albert von Frank -- "Well, my book is written - let it go ..." : the making of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Howard G. Baetzhold -- The unsmiling aspects of life : A hazard of new fortunes / John W. Crowley -- "Qiute the best, 'all round,' of all my productions" : the multiple versions of the Jamesian germ for The ambassadors / Richard A. Hocks --".
- catalog title "Biographies of books : the compositional histories of notable American writings / edited by James Barbour and Tom Quirk.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".