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Author : Scott MacDonald
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Critical Essays on Erskine Caldwell written by Scott MacDonald and published by Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1981 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert L. McDonald
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786423439
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Reading Erskine Caldwell written by Robert L. McDonald and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erskine Caldwell has been compared to literary giants like Faulkner and Hemingway, yet he has also been reviled as peddler of pop trash. Was he a genius, or just a shooting star whose brilliance faded long before he stopped writing? Caldwell began his career in the late 1920s and gained fame for revealing the gritty backwoods South in novels such as his seminal Tobacco Road. He wrote prolifically, sometimes as much as a book a year. As the editor of this book maintains, perhaps anyone who wrote so much would inevitably stumble. These 12 essays explore a variety of issues. They discuss Caldwell as humorist, social commentator, modernist, and revolutionary novelist. They examine his themes and tropes (political images, social injustice, the environment, ideological struggles) and his use of artistic devices (short stories, cubist strategies, repetition). A generous bibliography includes not only books on Caldwell but also chapters and forewords, journal articles, essays, news items and obituaries. The reader is encouraged to look at Caldwell with fresh eyes, to press beyond his controversial image, and to compare his works, especially his early ones, to those of any of the top names in literature.
Author : Robert McDonald
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313300720
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell written by Robert McDonald and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1997-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of such classics of 20th-century popular American literature as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), Erskine Caldwell was something of a celebrity nearly all his life. But he was also a serious writer, one whose merits are as considerable as they remain underexplored. In the 1930s, he startled the literary world with his frank portrayals of the poor whites of the South. Beginning in the early 1940s, critics grew suspicious that he had exhausted his originality and his talent. In the late 1960s, some scholars began an effort, which continues intermittently today, to reconsider Caldwell's achievement. This collection of reviews, critical essays, and book excerpts provides a chronological portrait of the often contradictory and unfailingly colorful critical response to Caldwell from 1931 to the present. The 57 pieces collected in this volume were chosen to represent all sides and perspectives in the evolving critical opinion of Caldwell's work. The items are grouped in sections representing three chronological periods that encompass the prevailing critical moods concerning his writings: the 1930s, when readers of many persuasions found him promising and held out great hopes for his development; 1940 to 1968, when increasing critical scrutiny led to his dismissal as a writer of significance; and 1969 to the present, when there have been several substantial efforts to reconsider Caldwell's achievement. An introductory essay argues that Caldwell remains largely absent from our critical consciousness today because of a prevailing willingness among academics to rely on largely negative received opinions about his books in place of primary experience with them. The introduction is followed by a chronology, and the volume concludes with an extensive selected bibliography.
Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book God's Little Acre written by Erskine Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan B. Miller
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Erskine Caldwell written by Dan B. Miller and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1995 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller offers a fresh reassessment of Caldwell's place in the national literary canon. Drawing on private letters, interviews with family members and friends, and contemporary criticism, he traces with narrative grace and style the sometimes tumultuous, yet always compelling, path of a true American original. Photos.
Author : Wayne Mixon
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813916279
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The People's Writer written by Wayne Mixon and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most critics have considered Caldwell to be only a minor southern writer, often associating him with his worst writing. Yet Saul Bellow suggested he deserved the Nobel Prize, and William Faulkner once characterized him as one of the five best writers of his time, alongside himself, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos.
Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : New American library of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Last Night of Summer written by Erskine Caldwell and published by New American library of Canada. This book was released on 1963 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453217010
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Journeyman written by Erskine Caldwell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA wandering preacher who gambles and chases women exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town/divDIV /divDIVWhen preacher Semon Dye moves into the tiny Georgia town of Rocky Comfort, many of its citizens welcome him. After all, the only church in town is being used to store fertilizer. But sermons aren’t the first thing on the mind of the tall, magnetic, and utterly dissolute man. Other callings take priority: women, whiskey, gambling, and hiding from the law. Even as he seduces wives, cheats at cards, and provokes old feuds, Dye manages to cast a dark spell over all the people in Rocky Comfort./divDIV /divDIVJourneyman is a wicked send-up of religious fervor by an American master of dark political satire./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library./div/div
Author : James Korges
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452909903
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Erskine Caldwell written by James Korges and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erskine Caldwell - American Writers 78 was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This pamphlet series has been hailed by critics, teachers, and librarians as an ideals means of introducing both students and general readers to American writers of all periods. Choice has commented: "For the small library this series offers at small cost introductions by reputable critics o dozens of significant authors, and the larger the library the greater the number of undergraduate students looking for a place to start on some writer." The New York Times Book Review has called the pamphlets "extraordinarily good," pointing out that "they are just long enough (48 pages) to permit a real survey of an author's work and short enough to attract the casual reader, the anxiety-ridden student, and the professor desperate for the straight word on an unfamiliar writer."
Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820318493
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Call it Experience written by Erskine Caldwell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this candid view of the hardships and rewards of the writer's life, Erskine Caldwell recalls his first thirty years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the most widely read and controversial authors of his time. All the while conveying the enormous amount of drive and dedication with which he pursued his calling, Caldwell tells of his struggles to find his own voice, his travels, and his various jobs, which ranged from backbreaking manual labor to much sought-after positions in radio, film, and journalism. Including a self-interview, Call It Experience offers a wealth of insights into Caldwell's imagination and his writing habits, as well as his views on critics and reviewers, publishers, and booksellers. It is a source of information and inspiration to aspiring writers.
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ISBN 13 : 9781448735341
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Tobacco Road written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453217223
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book In Search of Bisco written by Erskine Caldwell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVIn this travelogue and memoir, groundbreaking novelist Erskine Caldwell looks back at a life lived in the troubled South /divDIV /divDIVFive decades removed from his own Southern childhood, novelist Erskine Caldwell sets out on a journey to find an old friend—a friend lost to him through the culture of segregation. As Caldwell follows a trail through Georgia, South Carolina, and much of the Deep South in search of his black childhood friend Bisco, his interviews with white and black Americans expose a range of attitudes that are tragic, if not surprising./divDIV /divDIVPublished first in the mid-1960s just as the South was undergoing a radical transformation by freedom marches and sit-ins, In Search of Bisco offers a heartfelt account of the civil rights movement by one of the region’s fiercest critics and most prominent sons./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library./div/div
Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145321710X
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Georgia Boy written by Erskine Caldwell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVFourteen stories that follow a young boy coming of age in a dysfunctional family in the rural South /div DIVMeet William Stroop, a young son of the South whose charming voice and mordant observations of family and culture make him one of American literature’s most memorable narrators. In these fourteen interwoven stories, William details the high (and low) points of his family history, focusing particularly on his lazy, scheming father, Morris, his put-upon mother, Martha, and his confidante, Handsome Brown, a young black farmhand. As Morris matches wits with strangers and neighbors alike in constant pursuit of get-rich-quick plans, Martha tries to hold the family together without the aid of any discernable income./divDIV /divDIVTold with the polish and moral resonance of fables, Georgia Boy captures the beauty and tragedy of life in the rural South during the twentieth century./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library./div/div
Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Erskine Caldwell written by Erskine Caldwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm just an ordinary writer," Erskine Caldwell once wrote. "I'm not trying to sell anything; I'm not trying to buy anything. I'm just trying to present my vision of life." His ostensibly unsolicitous vision of Southern grotesques, of the slack-jawed, pellagra-ridden sharecroppers, repressed farmwives, and oversexed nymphets, elicited, however, anything but an "ordinary" response. Hailed by the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Maxwell Perkins, reviled by others as a pornographer or sensationalist, Caldwell was once called "America's most popular author." Once the furor flagged, Caldwell was relegated to the "mansions of subliterature," where his reputation resides today. This book contains more than 150 previously unpublished letters, notes, telegrams, and postcards written between 1929 and 1955, at the peak of Caldwell's popularity and influence, all extensively annotated. The Introduction assays Caldwell's significance in American popular culture and literary studies and establishes the importance of Caldwell's correspondence as a means of understanding the intentions of a man who was otherwise terse and unforthcoming about his work.
Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book North Of The Danube written by Erskine Caldwell and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1939 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of travel in Czechoslovakia at the beginning of its domination by Nazi Germany.
Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082031692X
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book You Have Seen Their Faces written by Erskine Caldwell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South--from South Carolina to Arkansas--to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. Their collaboration resulted in You Have Seen Their Faces, a graphic portrayal of America's desperately poor rural underclass. First published in 1937, it is a classic comparable to Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, and James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, which it preceded by more than three years. Caldwell lets the poor speak for themselves. Supported by his commentary, they tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them. Bourke-White, who sometimes waited hours for the right moment, captures her subjects in the shacks where they lived, the depleted fields where they plowed, and the churches where they worshipped.
Author : Edwin T. Arnold
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617033797
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Erskine Caldwell reconsidered written by Edwin T. Arnold and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
