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| | Richard Kostelanetz | Histories | Radio Broadcasts |
 | | R. Lewis, "The Myth and the Dialogue," ~American Adam~ (Chicago, 1955), 4,200 wds. |
 | | In this respect, ~Billy Budd~ depicts the irreconcilable split between the law of the heart and the heart of the law, Hivnor's ~Too Many Thumbs~ presents the paradox of mankind's evolution, Eliot writes about the conflicting purposes of religion and politics, and Williams describes the necessities and risks of human love. |
 | | This countertradition, then, has much in common with the dominant line of American fiction and poetry which, as recent studies by Leslie A. Fiedler, R. Lewis and Charles Fiedelson have demonstrated, is more mythic, symbolistic, gothic and metaphysical than social, didactic or realistic. |
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