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A Study Of The Cluster Novel As A Development In Contemporary Fiction, Mary Salber
A Study Of The Cluster Novel As A Development In Contemporary Fiction, Mary Salber
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
By 1929 and 1930 the popularity and the increasing use of the cluster form caught the attention of most careful readers of fiction. Its original adaptations, its unique technique, its clever appropriation of the best in the novel and in the short story forms, its use by leading novelists, its suggested similarity to age-old literary methods, and it's very apparent possibilities - all these make it a subject worthy of some detailed study.
It shall be the aim in this discussion to search out the very early traces of fictional forms similar to the cluster type, to attempt to account …