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Tough constructions in the context of English infinitives

Brillman, RuthMassachusetts Institute of Technology2017

… cannot undergo tough movement (1). (1) a. Jonathan Franzen is easy for Anneke to criticize b. *Anneke is easy - to criticize Jonathan Franzen. To answer this question, this dissertation proposes that a spec-to-spec anti-locality constraint (in the spirit of Erlewine 2016 and Brillman & …

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Seeing Whiteness: the Progression and Regression of White Identity in Four Post-Civil War Literary Generations

Stone, Sara N2018

… writers George Saunders, J.D. Vance, and Jonathan Franzen. It seeks to understand patterns in racism, white nationalism, and white supremacy as part of the fundamental construct of the literary white man, and follows the evolution of that construct over time. </p>

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"Like a Donut Maker, Only Slower": Don Delillo's Advice to Writers

Jones, Raphael

… the epistolary relationship between DeLillo and Jonathan Franzen. In Chapter four I compare DeLillo's advice with that of a selection of his contemporaries: William Gass, William Gaddis, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon.</p>

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The Real Story

Fleming, Maxine2014

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