Title: The Stoic strain in American literature : essays in honour of Marston LaFrance /
Authors: La France, Marston.; MacMillan, Duane J., 1937-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 1979
Subjects: La France, Marston.; American literature History and criticism; Stoics in literature.; Authors, American Biography
Contents: 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 "Magnun 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.