When Good Old Boys Crack Up Ray By Barry Hannah Knopf. 113 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by John Romano Department of English, Columbia University, author, "Dickens and Reality In its peculiar way—and...
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The End of a Romance A Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening of the American South, 1930-1955 By Richard H. King Oxford. $13.95. 320pp. Reviewed by John Romano Department of English,...
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The Torment of the Liberal Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics By William M. Chace Stanford. 224 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by John Romano Department of English, Columbia University; author,...
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Writers and Writing THE NEW TRADITIONALISTS BY JOHN ROMANO My sense that the present moment in literary criticism is a particularly confusing one was reinforced recently by John Barth. Barth told...
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Writers & Writing MAKING POLITICS SIMPLE BY JOHN ROMANO There appeared, recently, on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, a very amusing account of a disease called Sixtomania. The sufferer...
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