Equivocal Endings in Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Ambassadors; The Great GatsbyCambridge University Press, 1988 M02 18 - 161 pages An original approach to four mainstream texts for the study of American literature and the novel in general. It examines the strangely equivocal nature of the vision with which each of them ends, with the central protagonists illogically clinging to their own transcendent image of selfhood. |
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Equivocal Endings in Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter; Adventures ... Joyce A. Rowe No preview available - 2008 |
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