"A revised critique of Kingsolver's writing, from her first novel, The Bean Trees, through Flight Behavior, including her non-fiction and poetry, emphasizing her interest in ecological matters as well as feminist themes. Author of the only biography of Barbara Kingsolver and of a reader's guide to The Poisonwood Bible, Wagner-Martin has become the leading authority on this Pulitzer-prize-wining author. Here she covers every work in Kingsolver's oeuvre, emphasizing the writer's blend of the scientific method in which she was formally trained with her convincing understanding of the human characters that fill her books"--…mehr
"A revised critique of Kingsolver's writing, from her first novel, The Bean Trees, through Flight Behavior, including her non-fiction and poetry, emphasizing her interest in ecological matters as well as feminist themes. Author of the only biography of Barbara Kingsolver and of a reader's guide to The Poisonwood Bible, Wagner-Martin has become the leading authority on this Pulitzer-prize-wining author. Here she covers every work in Kingsolver's oeuvre, emphasizing the writer's blend of the scientific method in which she was formally trained with her convincing understanding of the human characters that fill her books"--
Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She was the 2011 recipient of the Hubbell Medal for lifetime service in American literature (sponsored by the MLA), and has received the Guggenheim fellowship, the senior National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, the Bunting Institute fellowship, and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Philosophical Association and others. She has published more than eighty-five books of criticism, some edited, including Sylvia Plath: A Biography (1987) and "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family (1995), as well as studies of Ernest Hemingway, Zelda Fitzgerald, Barbara Kingsolver, and others. Recent books are A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present (2013) and Toni Morrison and the Maternal (2014).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1. Flight Behavior: Dellarobia's Bildungsroman 2. The Innocence of The Bean Trees 3. Three Pigs in Heaven and Its Interrogation 4. Animal Dreams, a Prototypical Ecological Novel 5. The Fiction of Kingsolver's Non-novels 6. Kingsolver as Essayist-A Different Expertise 7. Seven Kingsolver as Poet 8. The Poisonwood Bible as Apex 9. The Prodigality of Prodigal Summer 10. Traveling to Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 11. Small Wonder: Staying Alive and the Bellweather Prizes 12. The Lacuna 13. Flight Behavior, Our Bildungsroman 14. Unsheltered 15. Demon Copperhead Bibliography Index
Preface 1. Flight Behavior: Dellarobia's Bildungsroman 2. The Innocence of The Bean Trees 3. Three Pigs in Heaven and Its Interrogation 4. Animal Dreams, a Prototypical Ecological Novel 5. The Fiction of Kingsolver's Non-novels 6. Kingsolver as Essayist-A Different Expertise 7. Seven Kingsolver as Poet 8. The Poisonwood Bible as Apex 9. The Prodigality of Prodigal Summer 10. Traveling to Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 11. Small Wonder: Staying Alive and the Bellweather Prizes 12. The Lacuna 13. Flight Behavior, Our Bildungsroman 14. Unsheltered 15. Demon Copperhead Bibliography Index
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