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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Mary McCarthy."”.
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"Myn owene woman, wel at ese" : feminist facts in the fiction of Mary McCarthy
This study examines Mary McCarthy's three major female-protagonist works of fiction--The Company She Keeps (1942), A Charmed Life (1955), and The Group (1963)--in terms of the author's attitude towards femaleness. It confronts Elizabeth Janeway's assessment in Harvard Guide to Contemporary American …
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"To liberate ourselves and each other" : reading the female community in the fiction of Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison.
… of three American women writers: Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. I am specifically concerned with comparing the depiction of female community within white and Black female writers' works. The introduction to this project establishes a theoretical background for understanding …
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Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism of Four Protagonists and Their Creators
… of four literary authors - Flannery O'Connor, Mary McCarthy, Walker Percy, and Cormac McCarthy. In the three novels and one imaginative memoir considered in particular, these authors create their existentialist protagonists, who in their turn reflect the conditional existentialism of their …
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Class work: New York intellectual labor and the creation of postmodern American fiction, 1932-1962
… In the 1930s and 40s, authors Tess Slesinger, Mary McCarthy, and Lionel Trilling sounded an increasingly shrill alarm over what they imagined was a pro-Soviet intellectual class of bureaucratic mental workers in America. I argue that while their class-conscious fictions laid foundations for …