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Bruffee, Kenneth A. – College English, 1971
Identifies--and labels as elegiac romance"--a group of 19th and 20th century American, English, and European novels in which a narrator relates the story of a heroic, questing figure to whom he is committed in attempting to overcome the effect of loss which results from" the hero's death. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Literary Criticism, Literary Genres, Narration