LIBROS DEL AUTOR: george monteiro

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  • The Hemingway Short Story
    George Monteiro
    Ernest Hemingway revolutionized the American short story, establishing himself as a master of realist fiction in the tradition of Guy de Mauppasant. Yet none of Hemingway’s emulators has succeeded in duplicating his understated, minimalist style. In his Iceberg Theory of fiction, only the tip of the story is seen on the surface--the rest is submerged out of sight. This stu...
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  • Reading Henry James
    George Monteiro
    Henry James (1843-1916) has been championed as an historian of social conscience and attacked as a spokesman for social privilege. His Americanness has been questioned by nativists and defended by Brahmins. Critics took issue with his lucidly complex style. 'It’s not that he bites off more than he can chew, but that he chews more than he bites off,' a contemporary complained...
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  • Robert Frost’s Poetry of Rural Life
    George Monteiro
    'Wise old Vergil says in one of his Georgics, ’Praise large farms, stick to small ones,’' Robert Frost said. 'Twenty acres are just about enough.' Frost started out as a school teacher living the rural life of a would-be farmer, and later turned to farming full time when he bought a place of his own. After a sojourn in England where his first two books were published to crit...
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  • Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After
    George Monteiro
    The life and career of American poet and writer Elizabeth Bishop falls into two distinct segments: the pre-Brazil years and the Brazil years and beyond. A creature of displacement from childhood, Bishop traveled to Brazil at the age of 40 for a two-week trip and unexpectedly stayed for most of the next two decades, a sojourn that marked her work indelibly. This study explore...
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