SOURCE: “Cane: Hermeneutics of Form and Consciousness,” in Jean Toomer and the Prison-House of Thought: A Phenomenology of the Spirit, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1993, pp. 33-62.
In the following essay, Jones analyzes Toomer's utilization of and experimentation with myriad literary forms in Cane.
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