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The Public Burning Summary & Study Guide Description
The Public Burning Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Because of its mass and its scope, the novel has a predictably large cast of characters. These can be broken down into three classes: historical victims; historical oppressors, by far the largest group; and personifications of public attributes.
Because one purpose of The Public Burning is to treat that moment in history at which the attitudes of America solidified into an unquestioning monism, Coover treats many historical figures as having mythic proportions.
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