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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:
Author : Harvey L. Klevar
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870497759
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Erskine Caldwell written by Harvey L. Klevar and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1930s, Erskine Caldwell's writings have provoked laughter and pathos, curiosity and disbelief. His perplexing characters, comically motivated only by their instincts for survival, allowed Caldwell to illustrate the duality of human nature as he explored the social issues of his times in such celebrated novels as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. Behind Caldwell's social protest and his comic characters lay a man whose life imitated art. A rural southerner who later moved among the movie industry's famous and powerful, Caldwell led a life as compelling as any of his fiction. As Harvey Klevar weaves the threads of this life into the cultural tapestry of the times, he explores the myriad of personal forces and world events that contributed in the 1930s to Caldwell's popular acclaim and later to his descent from literary grace. A recluse in both his personal life and in his public writing, Caldwell offered little direction to those seeking clues to his literary intentions. Klevar argues that Caldwell should have shared more in the accolades heaped upon his contemporaries Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck; but ultimately his personal idiosyncrasies encouraged his underestimation by the literary establishment. Proving that a careful reappraisal of Caldwell's life lends critical insight into his writings and career, Klevar's work unveils an inventive artist who skillfully combined social phenomena with personal experience to offer unique insights into the telling of the human story.
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 : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820316946
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Stories of Erskine Caldwell written by Erskine Caldwell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productive period of work. Included is "Crown-Fire," which James Dickey praised as "the best story in the language," and such personal favorites of Caldwell as "Country Full of Swedes," "The Windfall," "Horse Thief," "Yellow Girl," and "Kneel to the Rising Sun."
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 : 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 : Edd C. Applegate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031301681X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists written by Edd C. Applegate and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realistic writers seek to render accurate representations of the world, and their novels contain authentic details and descriptions of their characters and settings. Like Realistic authors, Naturalistic ones similarly try to portray the world accurately, but they tend to depict the darker side of life. Realism was born in Europe in the nineteenth century and soon became popular in the United States, while Naturalism became prominent at the beginning of the twentieth century. Both traditions have continued in one form or another to the present day, and Realistic and Naturalistic novelists include some of America's most significant authors, such as Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Ralph Ellison, and Jack London. This reference includes biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Naturalistic and Realistic novelists. An introductory essay discusses the history of the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions, points to the difficulty of defining them, and surveys the many authors who have been associated with the two movements. The entries that follow are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each includes basic biographical information and a narrative overview of the writer's educational background, professional career, and published works. The writer's works are briefly discussed in relation to the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions. Entries include primary and secondary bibliographies, and the volume closes with a list of works for further reading.
Author : Robert McDonald
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 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 344 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 : Blanche H. Gelfant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504950
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story written by Blanche H. Gelfant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.
Author : Erik M. Bachman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271081678
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Literary Obscenities written by Erik M. Bachman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary modernism and naturalism in the early twentieth century. Putting obscenity case law’s crisis of legitimation and modernism’s crisis of representation into dialogue, Erik Bachman shows how obscenity trials and other attempts to suppress allegedly vulgar writing in the United States affected a wide-ranging debate about the power of the printed word to incite emotion and shape behavior. Far from seeking simply to transgress cultural norms or sexual boundaries, Bachman argues, proscribed authors such as Wyndham Lewis, Erskine Caldwell, Lillian Smith, and James T. Farrell refigured the capacity of writing to evoke the obscene so that readers might become aware of the social processes by which they were being turned into mass consumers, voyeurs, and racialized subjects. Through such efforts, these writers participated in debates about the libidinal efficacy of language with a range of contemporaries, from behavioral psychologists and advertising executives to book cover illustrators, magazine publishers, civil rights activists, and judges. Focusing on case law and the social circumstances informing it, Literary Obscenities provides an alternative conceptual framework for understanding obscenity’s subjugation of human bodies, desires, and identities to abstract social forces. It will appeal especially to scholars of American literature, American studies, and U.S. legal history.
Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 143814069X
Total Pages : 3854 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Novel written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.
Author : Vivyan Campbell Adair
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815336518
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (365 download)
Download or read book From Good Ma to Welfare Queen written by Vivyan Campbell Adair and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this exploration the connection between textual representation and social productions of the "Real" become startlingly apparent.".
Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143812743X
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Companion to Literature written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."
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Author : Frances Osborn Robb
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731878X
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Shot in Alabama written by Frances Osborn Robb and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuously illustrated history of photography as practiced in the state from 1839 to 1941 offering a unique account of the birth and development of a significant documentary and artistic medium
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Author : Casey Kayser
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496835921
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Marginalized written by Casey Kayser and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Eudora Welty Prize In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region. Through analysis of the dramatic texts, the rhetoric of reviews of productions, as well as what the playwrights themselves have said about their plays and productions, Kayser delineates these challenges and argues that playwrights draw on various conscious strategies in response. These strategies, evident in the work of such playwrights as Pearl Cleage, Sandra Deer, Lillian Hellman, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Shay Youngblood, provide them with the opportunity to lead audiences to reconsider monolithic understandings of northern and southern regions and, ultimately, create new visions of the South.
