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Quest for failure

Walter J. Slatoff

1960275 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1960
first published
  • 1960Cornell University Press · 275 pages · ENG
  • 1972Greenwood Press · 275 pages · ENGISBN 9780837164328

Motion and immobility -- Sound and silence -- Quiescence and turbulence -- Tension -- The attraction of extremes -- Conceptual antithesis -- Character antithesis -- Stylistic antithesis -- The space between -- Some insoluble suspensions -- The sound and the fury -- As I lay dying -- Light in August -- Absalom, Absalom! -- The hamlet; Go down, Moses; The town -- The wild palms -- Requiem for a nun -- Sanctuary -- Pylon -- Intruder in the dust -- A fable -- Conclusions -- Works cited.

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