An across walls overview-study of novels and short stories by eighteen 20th century English and American authors

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An across walls overview-study of novels and short stories by eighteen 20th century English and American authors

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Publisher
E. Mellen Press
Language
English
Pages
169

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1
Chapter One:
Georgia and Yorkshire: Reversals and Inversions in 13
Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Susan Hill's "The Albatross" and A Bit of Singing and Dancing
Chapter Two:
Louisiana and Nottinghamshire: Rotation and Repetition 31
in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer and Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and "The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner"
Chapter Three:
Georgia and Merseyside: Violence and Laughter in 51
Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge," "Good Country People," and "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and Beryl Bainbridge's A Quiet Life and The Dressmaker
Chapter Four:
Maryland and Manchester: Musicians and Travelers in 71
Ann Tyler's Searching for Caleb and Anthony Burgess' The Piano players
Chapter Five:
Cumbria and Mississippi: The Symbolic Potential of the 85
Land in Elizabeth Spencer's Fire in the Morning and Melvyn Bragg's The Hired Man
Chapter Six: Kentucky and Yorkshire: 97
Metaphysical Landscapes and Character Transformations in Wendell Berry's The Memory of Old Jack and Jane Gardam's Crusoe's Daughter
Chapter Seven:
Mississippi and Lancashire: Petrified Women in Eudora 107
Welty's Curtain of Green and Elizabeth Troops' Darling Daughters
Chapter Eight:
Kentucky and Teeside: Social Entrapment in Bobby Ann 123
Mason's Love Life and "Shiloh " and Pat Barker's Union Street
Chapter Nine: 141
Coventry and Virginia: Women Renewed in Doris Betts' Heading West and "Hitchhiker" and Sue Townsend's Rebuilding Coventry and Womberang.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-165) and index.

Published in
Lewiston, N.Y
Series
Studies in comparative literature ;, v. 50, Studies in comparative literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) ;, v. 50.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.91099427
Library of Congress
PR8389.N63 H36 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
ii, 169 p. ;
Number of pages
169

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3568786M
ISBN 10
0773469974, 088946393X
LCCN
2002069575
Goodreads
775373

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2711597W

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