Histories of Violence: William Carlos Williams and Daniel Boone.
Critics have long compared William Carlos Williams to Daniel Boone, arguing that both abandoned European models to engage with the American landscape on its own terms. As evidence, scholars typically cite passages from In the American Grain (1925) that appear to praise Boone for his submission to th...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 58 - 75 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Indiana University Press
Spring2026
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