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"This collection of fourteen new essays on Gilman's mixed legacy - her vision for a truly humane, egalitarian world alongside her persistent presentation of class, ethnic, and racial stereotypes - underscores the contemporary relevance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). Gilman enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a writer, lecturer, and socialist, and her prodigious output (novels, stories, poetry, lectures, journalism, theoretical works) stands...
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"A biography of the imagination, this book meditates on Sylvia Plath's struggle for voice. It combines the rhetoric of psychoanalysis with the rhetoric of literary criticism, assuming with Freud that the self may be read as a text and with Robert Lowell that a text may become 'by a wild extended figure of speech, something living ... a person' ..."--Ix (preface).
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This volume contains include twenty-eight reviews and critical essays related to American writer and essayist Flannery O'Connor's (1925-1964) life and work. The collection begins with an introduction, which survey's O'Connor's career and the critical reaction to it, the remaining selections are arranged into three sections -- the first, offers twelve reviews dealing with O'Connor's two novels, and her collections of short stories and essays; the second...
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"A former United States Poet Laureate, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of numerous grants and awards, Mona Van Duyn has been hailed as one of our greatest living American poets. To help broaden and uniquely inform our understanding of Van Duyn's work, editor Michael Burns has gathered ten essays, a poem, a succinct biographical sketch, and Van Duyn's own Laureate address to the Library of Congress."--BOOK JACKET.
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This first full-length study of Anne Tyler examines the patterns reappearing throughout her 11 novels. Petry explains that in the past Tyler has been classified as a woman's writer, a Southern writer influenced by Faulkner, and even a Dickensian, all of which labels are disproved. Instead, Petry suggests the strong influence of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and 19th-century Russian playwrights, especially Chekhov. Although Tyler does not care for the...
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"Why did she say, "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts?"...To trace Cather's struggle to weld her broken world together again, Skaggs concentrates on the novels Cather published after 1922. She finds considerable evidence of "brokenness" within Cather's Pulitzer prize-winning novel One of Ours, published in 1922. Then proceeding from novel to novel through Cather's last, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, of 1940, Skaggs traces the intricate interrelations...
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"As its title suggests, The Critical Waltz: Essays on the Work of Dorothy Parker focuses on the writing, rather than the life, of one of the twentieth century's most famous underappreciated authors. Although Parker (1893-1967) is known as the caustic wit of the Jazz Age, her work embodies a range of sensibilities informed by the twin tensions of modernism and feminism." "What is the significance of Parker's work? This is the question that The Critical...
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