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Show Boat (1927), Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's immortal tale of life on the Mississippi River from the 1880s to the 1920s, was one of the landmark works of the American musi...
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Critical Essay by Louis Kronenberger
At a time when realism is all but monopolizing literature, one experiences a sensation of delighted relief in encountering "Show Boat." It is gorgeou...
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In the following largely favorable review of Show Boat, the critic, lamenting his modern culture's lack of what he calls "local color," suggests that while Ferber's novel c...
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Kronenberger was an American essayist, biographer, novelist, and educator. In the following favorable review of Show Boat, a portion of which was excerpted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 18,...
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In the following review, the critic favorably assesses Show Boat.
Show Boat is magnificent. It is a definite advance in minor characterization and in atmospheric writing over So Big. The main characte...
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In the following review, the critic favorably assesses the plot and characters of Show Boat.
Richly romantic, packed with incident and sentiment, this new book Show Boat by Edna Ferber brings back the...
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Show Boat
Critical Essay by Louis Kronenberger
