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Bibliography: p. 152-156. A critical interpretation of McCullers' works.

" ... [T]his study traces McCuller's literary reputation by recording chronologically the trends and prominent issues in commentary on her work and by examining the critical assumptions that support them."--Preface.

Also includes criticism of William Styron, Harvey Swados, Norman Mailer, Frederick Buechner, Bernard Malamud, Ralph Ellison, Herbert Gold, John Cheever, and J.P. Donleavy.

In Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. Tracing the cultural heritage of the South, Westling shows how southern women reacted to the violent, false world created by their men-a world in which women came to be shrouded as icons of purity in atonement for the sins of men. Exposing the...