TY - BOOK AU - Barbour,James AU - Quirk,Tom TI - Writing the American classics SN - 9781469617152 U1 - 813/.509 22 KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Authors, American KW - Biography KW - Canon (Literature) KW - Authorship KW - Littérature américaine KW - Histoire et critique KW - Écrivains américains KW - Biographies KW - Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature) KW - Art d'écrire KW - fast KW - Geschichte KW - gnd KW - Kanon KW - Klassiker KW - Literatur KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - Amerikaans KW - gtt KW - Letterkunde KW - Canon KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General KW - bisacsh KW - swd KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - lcgft KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Lockean realities and Olympian perspectives: the writing of Franklin's Autobiography; J.A. Leo Lemay --; "All my books are botches": Melville's struggle with The whale; James Barbour --; The remaking of Walden; Robert Sattelmeyer --; Nobility out of tatters: the writing of Huckleberry Finn; Tom Quirk --; The composition of The professor's house; James Woodress --; Hemingway's greatest iceberg: the composition of The sun also rises; William Balassi --; A "matchless time": Faulkner and the writing of The sound and the fury; Sally Wolff and David Minter --; A short history of Tender is the night; Scott Donaldson --; How Native son was born; Keneth Kinnamon --; The mirror and the vamp: invention, reflection, and bad, bad Cathy Trask in East of Eden; Louis Owens N2 - This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a writer's mind UR - https://bd.ucaldas.edu.co/auth-meta/login.php?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1938857 ER -