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Article: Tom Wolfe's American Ubermensch: I Am Charlotte Simmons and the rhetoric of "manly courage".
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- Papers on Language & Literature
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- September 22, 2007
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Tom Wolfe's most recent book, I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004), is a campus novel replete with the kind of literary pyrotechnics for which Wolfe has long been famous--the point-of-view shifts; the extended and extensive use of dialogue to establish both scene and subjectivities of characters; and the liberal use of quirky punctuation, to include rampant ellipses, colons, italics, and exclamation points. Perhaps more importantly, Charlotte Simmons is a novel buttressed by the sort of pre-composition reportage through which Wolfe has traditionally established authorial ethos and expertise. In several pre-and post-publication interviews, Wolfe speaks of having ...
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Article: Wolfe enrolls.(I Am Charlotte Simmons)(Book ...
National Review;
December 27, 2004 ;
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...I Am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus and ... the strangest is that Wolfe fails to capture faculty ... a college student. Charlotte Simmons is a sheltered and ... vehicle through which Wolfe can communicate the ...
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