The Columbia History of the American Noveland, 288, 289; Western novels and, 369 Democratic societies, avant-garde and, 734 Demythologizing, 10 -11; avant-garde and, 734 Denning, Michael, 286, 293, 300 Dennis, Patrick (Edward Everett Tanner), Auntie Mame, 502 Depression, economic, 326; African Americans and, 348; in Canada, 570; ethnic novels, 392; and proletarian art, 331 -32, 334 -46; pulp magazines, 359 Derrida, Jacques, 516 Desktop publishing, 681 Detective fiction: African American, 496; dime novels, 294, 297; Native American, 455 -56; twentieth century, 371 -78 Detective Story Magazine, 359 Detective Tales, 373 Determinism: of Davis's work, 225 -26; and individualism, 193 Development, female, novels of, 110 Dew, Thomas R., 96 Dexter, Pete, Deadwood, 461 Dialects, 251; Quebecois, 571 Dialect tales, post-Civil War, 244 -45 Diaz del Castillo, Bernal, True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 525 Dickens, Charles, Martin Chuzzlewit, 8 Dickinson, Anna, 236 Dickstein, Morris, 393 Diction, concreteness of, 11 Didion, Joan, 771 -72; Play ...»