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Word: denuement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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...against division). Always a dramatist, Miller emphasizes again and again the outcome toward which these conflicts move, and a great heavy sense of the coming of the Civil War shapes the book's inexorable progress toward tragedy. Miller skillfully does not mention the war at all except as the denuement left unwritten, the climax which determines everything, yet arrives offstage...

Author: By Max Byrd, | Title: The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War | 9/25/1965 | See Source »

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