Just words

Robert W. Greene (philologist)

earliest edition we have, 1989 Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993 188 pages

"Are the words that a novelist uses adequate to his or her elusive subject - the human condition? Are they pertinent, accurate, invariably fair, unflinchingly honest? Or do the novelist's words execute essentially formal maneuvers, engaging our interest through their patterns rather than their reach? And what about a possible third, synthesizing option? Robert W. Greene discovers that the two apparently divergent int...

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Just words edition · 1993 · Pennsylvania State University Press · 188 pages
Just Words: paperback · 1989 · Pennsylvania State University Press · 204 pages · 9780271026381

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