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Article: GEORGE LILLO AND THE VICTIMS OF ECONOMIC THEORY(1).
- Article from:
- Studies in the Literary Imagination
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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Most analyses of George Lillo's drama either mention in passing or simply ignore the fact that Lillo adapted his plays from extant works written for a popular audience, rather than writing them from scratch or deriving them from loftier sources, as many of his contemporaries and immediate predecessors did. But although Lillo's plots were not original, the material that Lillo chose to adapt and the manner in which he adapted it reveal much about his stance as social critic and his method as a playwright. Lillo's use of "low" subject matter participates in a larger commitment to what we would now call realism, as does, for example, his preference for speech-patterned ...
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Encyclopedia entry: De Lillo, Don
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;
494 words
...De Lillo, Don (1936–), novelist born ... corrupt American expatriate in Athens, De Lillo published White Noise (1985), by general ... American Book Award. Other recent novels by De Lillo are The Body Artist (2001) and Cosmopolis ...
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