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Place in American fiction : excursions and explorations /

"This collection of essays devoted to the centrality of place in the short stories and novels of some of the twentieth century's most famous American writers was conceived as a way to honor the life and career of Walter Sullivan, an author for whom place was central both in his fiction and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Weatherby, Harold L., 1934-, Sullivan, Walter, 1924-2006, Core, George
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a ball of golden thread / George Core
  • Thoughts on fictional places / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
  • Places we have come from, places we have been / George Garrett
  • The Delta / Charles East
  • One writer's sense of place / Elizabeth Spencer
  • Place in my fiction / Martha Lacy Hall
  • Imagination in place / Wendell Barry
  • Faulkner's wilderness / H.L. Weatherby
  • Place in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda stories: portrait of the artist as a rebellious Texas belle / William Pratt
  • Place in Robert Penn Warren's life and work / Joseph Blotner
  • The outside of the inside: the vision of time and place in Eudora Welty / Lewis P. Simpson
  • Eudora Welty's sense of place / Denis Donoghue
  • St. Paul boy / Scott Donaldson
  • Purgatory in the midwest: the white martyrdom of Urban Roche / Robert Benson
  • "A tyrannous sense of place": notes on Wallace Stegner's lyrical realism / Thomas Bontly
  • Early Updike: wandering in the fields of the Lord / Pat C. Hoy II
  • Places and spaces in the fiction of Walter Sullivan / Martha E. Cook
  • Walter Sullivan: a profile / George Core
  • Winter in the mountains / David Middleton.