Book Description
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Author : Reynolds Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439125449
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Author : Reynolds Price
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 1998-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684846941
0ne of the most feisty, spellbinding and engaging heroines in modern fiction captures the essence of her own life in this contemporary American odyssey born of red-clay land and small-town people. We meet Kate at a crucial moment in middle age when she begins to yearn to see the son she abandoned when she was seventeen. But if she decides to seek him, will he understand her? Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Kate Vaiden is a penetrating psychological portrait of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances, a story as joyous, tragic, comic and compelling as life itself.
Author : Reynolds Price
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822325888
This journal offers a rich reward for those seeking to enter the guild of writers, as well as those intrigued by the process of the literary life. Price is the award-winning author of 30 books and is a regular broadcast commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered".
Author : James A. Schiff
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781570031267
This critical analysis of Price's writings traces the development of an esteemed American writer, from the 1962 publication A Long and Happy Life. Demonstrating how literary trends have often run counter to Price's career, Schiff argues that Price has remained committed to a personal vision.
Author : Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810831957
This carefully annotated bibliography lists sources of criticism for thirty-nine Southern male authors, each of whom has published at least one significant book of fiction between 1970 and 1994.
Author : Graydon Carter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1101993014
A collection of beloved authors on beloved writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair What did Christopher Hitchens think of Dorothy Parker? How did meeting e.e. cummings change the young Susan Cheever? What does Martin Amis have to say about how Saul Bellow’s love life influenced his writing? Vanity Fair has published many of the most interesting writers and thinkers of our time. Collected here for the first time are forty-one essays exploring how writers influence one another and our culture, from James Baldwin to Joan Didion to James Patterson.
Author : Rebecca Mcclanahan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1599638681
Paint Masterful Descriptions on the Page! Writing strong descriptions is an art form, one that you need to carefully develop and practice. The words you choose to describe your characters, scenes, settings, and ideas--in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction--need to precisely illustrate the vision you want to convey. Word Painting Revised Edition shows you how to color your canvas with descriptions that captivate readers. Inside, you'll learn how to: • Develop your powers of observation to uncover rich, evocative descriptions. • Discover and craft original and imaginative metaphors and similes. • Effectively and accurately describe characters and settings. • Weave description seamlessly through your stories, essays, and poems. You'll also find dozens of descriptive passages from master authors and poets--as well as more than one hundred exercises--to illuminate the process. Whether you are writing a novel or a poem, a memoir or an essay, Word Painting Revised Edition will guide you in the creation of your own literary masterpiece.
Author : Nita Schechet
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838640579
Narrative Fissures: Reading and Rhetoric is a guide to applied rhetorical criticism of narrative in diverse fields such as cultural studies, ethnography, psychotherapy, historiography, critical legal studies, education, communication, and medicine.
Author : Susan Ketchin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496800966
Here are Susan Ketchin's discerning interviews with twelve southerners living and writing in the South, and along with a piece of fiction by each are her penetrating commentaries about the impact of southern religious experience on their work. A little more than a generation ago Flannery O'Connor made a startling observation about herself and her fellow southerners: “By and large,” she said, “people in the South still conceive of humanity in theological terms. While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The southerner who isn't convinced of it is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God.” Guided by O'Connor's perceptive commentary about southerners in general, Susan Ketchin has created a deeply revealing collection that mirrors the pervasive role of religion in the literature by the recent generation of notable southern writers. Ketchin confirms that “old-time religion” remains a potent force in the literature of the contemporary South.
Author : Janet Mason Ellerby
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0472121057
Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child. Interweaving her own experience as a pregnant teen forced to surrender her daughter and pledge secrecy for decades, Ellerby interrogates “out-of-wedlock” motherhood, mapping the ways archetypal scarlet women and their children have been exiled as social pariahs, pardoned as blameless pawns, and transformed into empowered women. Drawing on narrative, feminist, and autobiographical theory, the book examines the ways that the texts have affirmed, subverted, or challenged dominant thinking and the prevailing moral standards as they have shifted over time. Using her own life experience and her uniquely informed perspective, Ellerby assesses the effect these stories have on the lives of real women and children. By inhabiting the space where ideology meets narrative, Ellerby questions the constricting historical, cultural, and social parameters of female sexuality and permissible maternity. As a feminist cultural critique, a moving autobiographical journey, and an historical investigation that addresses both fiction and film, Embroidering the Scarlet A will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, sociology, psychology, women’s and gender studies, and film studies. The book will also interest general readers, as it relates the experience of surrendering a child to adoption at a time when birthmothers were still exiled, birth records were locked away, and secrecy was still mandatory. It will also appeal to those concerned with adoption or the cultural shifts that have changed our thinking about illegitimacy.