Carson McCullers

Voorkant
Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Infobase Publishing, 2009 - 201 pagina's

Carson McCullers was a diverse and multitalented writer who produced two plays and numerous short stories, essays, and poems. But it is her fiction, including The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, that established her as a key voice of the 1940s and '50s. Critics have praised her lyrical evocations of the yearning for love, always tempered by a harsh acknowledgment of the futility of the quest. This new edition of full-length critical essays offers illuminating discussions of McCullers's work and its place in the American canon. This latest title in the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series is bolstered by a chronology, a bibliography, notes on the contributors, and an introduction from noted literary scholar Harold Bloom.

 

Geselecteerde pagina's

Inhoudsopgave

Introduction
1
Gray Eyes Is Glass
7
A Mixture of Delicious and Freak
17
Expanding Southern Whiteness
45
Revisiting the Southern Grotesque
57
Carson McCullers Primal Scenes
73
The Delayed Entrance of Lily Mae Jenkins
87
Divided Hearts
99
The Afterlife of Coverture
127
Ambiguitythe Ideal Way of Having the World
149
Chronology
177
Contributors
180
Bibliography
182
Acknowledgments
185
Index
187
Copyright

Approaching Community
117

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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

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Over de auteur (2009)

Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible. Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelCarson McCullers
Bloom's Modern Critical Views
RedacteursHarold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
UitgeverInfobase Publishing, 2009
ISBN1438119275, 9781438119274
Lengte201 pagina's
  
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