LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david smit

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  • Authoritarianism and Class in American Political Fiction
    David Smit
    This book analyzes what many critics consider to be the three best examples of modern American political fiction-Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah, and Billy Lee Brammer’s The Gay Place-to address a specific problem in American governance. ...
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  • Power and Class in Political Fiction
    David Smit
    This book introduces Elite Theory to the literary study of class as a framework for addressing issues of the nature of governance in political fiction.  The book describes the historical development and major tenets of Elite Theory, and shows how each of four post-war Washington novels-Gore Vidal’s Washington, D.C.; Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent; Joan Didion’s Democracy; and...
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  • Ingrid Bergman
    David Smit
    Smit studies the woman behind the public image as a natural, wholesome, even saintly person, an image carefully crafted by Bergman’s first producer David O. Selznick. Bergman hid behind that image to live her life on her own terms. That life included three difficult marriages, numerous lovers, and a major scandal that stained her reputation but which she survived by creating...
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    42,75 €