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"This research will examine Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology, with a focus on the narrative of tension between the culture of small-town America and the culture of the wide world, and the bias both Anderson and Masters appear to have toward the latter rather than the former. The research will set forth the context in which the narrative pattern of each of the works emerges and discuss the pattern of ideas of each work in general terms, together with the means by which the theme of felt tension in (and advocacy of escape from) the narrowness of small-town life is developed in each.

Spoon River Anthology and Winesburg, Ohio are roughly contemporary literary works and similar in several ways, both as publishing products and as observed records of their milieu. Each work.."

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