Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert John Farmer, professor of English and American Literature at the University of Bordeaux, will come as exchange professor from France for the first half year. His courses will be on "The Modern English Novel" and "The Elizabethan Dramatists." An Englishman, Dr. Farmer graduated from the University of Manchester, and subsequently moved to France. His publications have concerned English Literature in the late 19th Century, particularly the works of Walter Pater, essayist and critic...
Last week Frederic Prokosch followed this unusual novel with a volume of 30 sombre poems no less unusual. Compelling attention by their bold use of language, their mastery of rhythm, their melancholy speculative tone-as well as by the inveterate ambiguity of their meaning-the verses included in The Assassins ranged from night thoughts on the shores of the Baltic to an evocation of Alexandria at noon, gave an impression of a strong talent somewhat overburdened with literary allusions and traditional poetic moods. Possessing none of the sardonic mockery that distinguishes so much post-War poetry. Frederic Prokosch writes...
Miss Margaret Mitchell's thousand-page novel of Civil War and Reconstruction days in the South is an interesting and entertaining accomplishment. The reviewer cannot call it the best novel yet written on the Civil War because he remembers. "The Red Badge of Courage" and Evelyn Scott's "The Wave," "Gone With the Wind" is not a "deep" book; its value lies in the scope of its narrative and in its extraordinary fine re-creation of an atmosphere. Despite that it is set in times of great historic significance it is a book of persons rather than of events...
...persons are extremely well handled and the chronicle of their lives forms an attractive and decidedly first-class novel. Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine, is a triumph of characterization; shrewd, courageous, amoral, she flaunts her personal rebellion in the face of a rebellion shaken land. Half-Irish and half-French, utter realist yet the servant of a self-deceiving love, Scarlett O'Hara is unique in American fiction. Other characters are good and bad; the minor figures are not sketched with that conciseness and surety which mark the mature artist. Miss Mitchell needs space to develop either a character...
...first novel Miss Mitchell's is an astonishing four de force. It is easy to believe that she spent seven years in writing it. It was born to be a beat-seller and no one but could be glad that it is. Tremendonaly long, dealing with the period of our greatest national crisis, written moreover from the losing (and of action and skillful characterisation, it is an experience that the American reader would be foolish to disregard...