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Old 08-23-2010, 05:41 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by kindlekitten View Post
I'm going to guess you have not read a lot of AMericanLiterature from the Civil War until ohhhh about 1960
Other than Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Pearl S. Buck, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos and the like, that would be a good guess. But in my limited sample I don't see a lot of mimetic transcription of speech.
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