Linda Wagner-Martin

Barbara Kingsolver's World (eBook, PDF)

Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Since Barbara Kingsolver published The Bean Trees in 1988, her work has been of great interest to readers-first, American readers; then British and South African readers; and finally to readers the world over. With incredible speed, Kingsolver became one of the best-known United States writers, a person who collected honors and awards as if she were a much more mature literary producer.

From the beginning Kingsolver touched an elbow of keen interest in her readers: hers was the voice of world awareness, a conscientious voice that demanded attention for the narratives of the disadvantaged, the politically troubled, the humanly silenced. By paying special attention to her non-fiction (essays and books), this new study by renowned literary critic Linda Wagner-Martin highlights the way Kingsolver has become a kind of public intellectual, particularly in the 21st century. It provides fresh readings of each of her novels, stories, and poems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781623567361
• Artikelnr.: 48421220

Autorenporträt

Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Her many books include Sylvia Plath: A Biography (1987) and Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (2nd edition, 2003).

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