Word: stylistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories by the author of Ship of Fools confirms her standing as a master stylist but suggests that her art is often wanting in human warmth...
...COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories by the author of Ship of Fools confirms her standing as a master stylist but suggests that her art is often wanting in human warmth...
...COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories, four of them new, by the author of Ship of Fools. Though marred by an oppressive intellectuality, these stories confirm that Author Porter is a master stylist...
Goethe was a notable philosopher, a crack professional scientist, a successful political administrator, a stylist second to none in German literature, a major novelist and dramatist, and probably the most richly expressive lyric poet who ever lived-a genius who differed in kind but not in degree from Dante and Shakespeare. He wrote a hundred times more than either of them-his collected works fill 150 volumes-and consequently more of what he wrote is dated; The Sorrows of Young Werther, for instance, reads in this unsentimental century like soap opera written in gold ink. But his finest works-Iphigenia...
...Houghton Mifflin fellowships, and is currently living in Greece on a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Critics found his earlier books, The Cat Man (about circus life) and The Circle Home (about boxing), flat on characterization and rickety on plot, but praised him as a stylist. The Peacock's Tail is the story of a youne New Yorker's trials after he loses his girl Sandy to a Jewish rival. He becomes a refugee in a West Side hotel inhabited by whores and derelicts. Most of the book recounts his oscillating between Sandy...