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Allen, Brooke. Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in Uncertain Times.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Sept. 2003. 232p. Ivan R. Dee, $26 (1-56663-520-9). 820.9.
Allen has all the academic credentials a literary critic can possess, yet she eschews an excessively text-oriented approach and writes out of passion and with panache (her opening lines are to die for). Although she is keenly conversant in the writings of the seminal twentieth-century figures she profiles, she is more concerned with writers' lives than with close readings of their work, saving her pinpoint analysis for literary biographies. Allen performs this uncommon and invaluable critical feat in her bracing and cobweb-eradicating ...
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