Word: jeffersian
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Maternal incest and suicide are thereafter overwhelmingly indicated, but Author Jeffers finally prescribes his hero's self-sacrificial surrender to the Law to put his story out of its misery. From the residue of ideological wreckage readers may salvage some souvenirs of sense by recalling that incest, in Jeffersian prophecy, symbolizes "racial introversion: man regarding man exclusively-founding his values, desires, a picture of the universe, all on his own humanity...
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