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Farrell, James Thomas - 1904–79, American novelist, b. Chicago. In his fiction Farrell expressed anger against the brutal economic and social conditions that produce emotional and material poverty. His work, noted for the frankness of its language and its detailed realism, is in the tradition of naturalism. Farrell's first series of novels about life among the Irish Catholic population of |
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Literary Integrity and Political Action: The Public Argument of James T. Farrell » Read Nowby Kathleen Farrell. 136 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire LibraryKathleen Farrell is associate professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa.
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The Silence of History » Read Nowby James T. Farrell. 376 pgs.
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Sam Holman: A Novel » Read Nowby James T. Farrell. 276 pgs.
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Documents of American Realism and Naturalism (Chap. Twenty-Four "Some Observations on Naturalism, so Called, in Fiction" by James T. Farrell) » Read Nowby Donald Pizer. 474 pgs.
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The Dance Marathons, in MELUS » Read Nowby James T. Farrell. 11 pgs.
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James T. Farrell's "The Dance Marathons," in MELUS » Read Nowby Ellen Skerrett. 5 pgs.
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Farrell and Dostoevsky, in MELUS » Read Nowby Dennis Flynn. 13 pgs.
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Makers of the City (Chap. 3 "James T. Farrell: The City as Society") » Read Nowby Lewis F. Fried. 244 pgs.
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Farrell's Ethnic Neighborhood and Wright's Urban Ghetto: Two Visions of Chicago's South Side, in MELUS » Read Nowby Robert Butler. 9 pgs.
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American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream (1956) (Chap. X "James T. Farrell: Aspects of Telling the Whole Truth") » Read Nowby Charles Child Walcutt. 334 pgs.
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Twentieth-Century American Literary Naturalism: An Interpretation ("Studs Lonigan: James T. Farrell" begins on p. 17) » Read Nowby Donald Pizer. 171 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire LibraryAn important paradox characterizes the history of American literary naturalism. Although the movement has been attacked by literary journalists and academic critics since its origin in the 1890s, it has been one of the most persistent and vital strains in American fiction. Naturalism 'refuses to...
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American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary ("James T. Farrell (1904-1979)" begins on p. 131) » Read Nowby E. C. Applegate. 426 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire LibraryThis reference includes alphabetically arranged biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Realistic and Naturalistic novelists, including Henry Adams, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Jack London. Each entry includes basic biographical...
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The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s ("Other Dissident Writers and Critics on the Left: James T. Farrell, F. W. Dupee, Edmund Wilson" begins on p. 82) » Read Nowby Alan M. Wald. 442 pgs.
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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (1960) ("Farrell, James Thomas (1904-)" begins on p. 165) » Read Nowby Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.
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American Literary Criticism, 1900-1950 (1952) ("James T. Farrell (1904-)" begins on p. 427) » Read Nowby Charles I. Glicksberg. 574 pgs.
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