Themes and directions in American literature
Subtitle: essays in honor of Leon Howard.
By: Edited by Ray B. Browne and Donald Pizer.
Contributors: Howard, Leon.; Browne, Ray Broadus, ed.; Pizer, Donald, ed.
Publisher: Purdue University Studies
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: American literature -- Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The lecture, by A. Stanford.; title: Introduction: a cause for thanks, by W. Morris.; title: Puritan devotion and American literary history, by N. S. Grabo.; title: Sympathy comes to America, by J. Stafford.; title: The typicality of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by E. Carter.; title: Thoreau and the borrowed reeds, by C. Bode.; title: Ishmael, writer and art critic, by H. P. Vincent.; title: Melville's chimney, revisited, by M. M. Sealts, Jr.; title: A house to be born in, by J. Leyda.; title: Arcadia on the range, by J. E. Phillips.; title: The epistemological theme of The mysterious stranger, by W. Glick.; title: The tragic muse: Henry James's loosest, baggiest novel? By R. Falk.; title: Jay Gatsby and Hopalong Cassidy, by P. Durham.; title: Manhattan transfer and the service of things, by D. Sanders.; title: American fiction and French literary existentialism, by R. Lehan.; title: William Faulkner, committee chairman, by J. Blotner.; title: Randall Jarrell's poetry, by R. Humphrey.; title: Leon Howard: check-list of publications, 1930-1968 (p. 234-238)