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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• 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