Reflections in a Critical Eye

Essays on Carson McCullers
Herausgeber: Whitt, Jan

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Produktbeschreibung

Reflections in a Critical Eye is intended to appeal both to scholars of Carson McCullers and to those unaffiliated with colleges and universities who read and celebrate her life and work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780761838944
• ISBN-10: 0761838945
• Artikelnr.: 23329710

Autorenporträt

Jan Whitt is associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of other books, including Settling the Borderland: Other Voices in Literary Journalism (2008) and Allegory and the Modern Southern Novel (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Exiled Heir: An Introduction to Carson
McCullers and Her Work Chapter 3 Carson McCullers and the Tradition of
Southern Women's Nonfiction Prose Chapter 4 The Daughters as Outlaw in The
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding Chapter 5 You Might
as Well Listen to the Chain Gang: The Ballad of the Sad Café Chapter 6 A
"Calculable Woman" and a "Jittery Ninny": Performing Femininity in The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Ballad of the Sad Café Chapter 7 Miss
Amelia's Pharmacy: Carson McCullers and the Influence of Alcohol Chapter 8
"Copying the Wrong Pieces": Replication and the Mathematics of Togetherness
in The Member of the Wedding Chapter 9 Living and Writing in the Margins:
Lesbian Desire and the Novels of Carson McCullers Chapter 10 Politics in
the Kitchen: Carson McCullers, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Surrealist History
Chapter 11 "Simple Stories and the Inward Mind": Conclusions and New
Beginnings Part 12 Index Part 13 About the Contributors