Wright Morris (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Several of Wright Morris’s books, including The Inhabitants (1946), God’s Country and My People (1968), and Love Affair: A Venetian Journal (1972), are “photo-texts.” They feature photographs accompanied by brief prose passages. In the first of these, Morris describes the “inhabitants” of America from coast to coast through photographs of their structures—buildings which have affected the “indwellers.” Pictures of porch fronts in the West, for example, reveal New England influences, as do the inhabitants of the...
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