SOURCE: "The Great Plain: Rölvaag's New World Sea," in South Dakota Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, Autumn, 1982, pp. 35-49.
In the following essay, de Grazia studies the symbolic influence of the sea as a creative force, and the negative effects of the sea's absence, in the novels of Ole Rölvaag.
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