The Stoic strain in American literature
Subtitle: essays in honour of Marston LaFrance
By: edited by Duane J. MacMillan.
Contributors: LaFrance, Marston, 1927-1975.; MacMillan, Duane J., 1937-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: LaFrance, Marston, 1927-1975; American literature -- History and criticism; Stoics in literature; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Johnston, G. For Marston LaFrance.; title: Buitenhuis, P. The Stoic strain in American literature.; title: Stern, M. R. Towards Bartleby the scrivener.; title: Allen, G. W. Walt Whitman and Stoicism.; title: Beattie, M. Henry James: the voice of Stoicism.; title: Davison, R. A. A reading of Frank Norris's The pit.; title: Salomon, R. B. The mock-heroics of desire.; title: Backman, M. Death and birth in Hemingway.; title: MacMillan, D.J. His "Magnum O": Stoic humanism in Faulkner's A fable.; title: Fuchs, D. Saul Bellow and the example of Dostoevsky.; title: Lawson, L.A. The moviegoer and the Stoic heritage.; title: Middlebro', T. Marston LaFrance: a tribute and memorial bibliography.