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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Haircut" was collected in Roundup, probably Ring Lardner's best book. In any case this is the finest story that Lardner wrote during his short, intense career. It shows his trademarks—exact dialect, surface clarity of...
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From: The Hollins Critic[(essay date October 1993) In the following essay, Core provides an overview of Trevor's work, discussing recurring themes and Trevor's critical reception.] As a writer one doesn't belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedLOUIS RUBIN, FOR WHOM the tired phrases Renaissance man and man of letters are perfectly accurate but do not seem sufficient, has suggested more than once that he was a late bloomer. To hear him tell the story of his...
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From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAT the age of sixty-five William Trevor has written some twenty books of fiction that for range of effect--philosophical density, exactness of style and idiom, variety of character, comic depth, and tragic...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTHAT LEWIS V. SIMPSON was among the leading editors of his time so far as the literary quarterly is concerned strikes me as a truism. In his league or at his level during roughly the same period stand the editorial...
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From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAt the age of sixty-one Patrick White has written nine novels which for range of effect, intensity of action, force of character, thematic scope, metaphoric density, stylistic depth, and freshness of detail are...
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From: The American South: Portrait of a Culture[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Core provides an introduction to the Fugitives and the Agrarians. He emphasizes the Fugitive devotion to the idea of the “man of letters,” or literature as a vocation rather...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBy a pleasant coincidence these studies of William Byrd--the only two books on the man--have been released within a few months of one another. The one (published originally by Houghton Mifflin in 1932) has demonstrated...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionWilliam Trevor is one of the leading short story writers in the British Isles. Trevor's overall accomplishment is so various and strong that none of his 90 or so published stories has become a chestnut. Relatively few of...
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From: Place in American Fiction: Excursions and Explorations[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Hoy explores landscape and geographical location as the means to human salvation in Updike's short fiction.] We are all exiles who need to bathe in the irrational.--John...
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From: Place in American Fiction: Excursions and Explorations
Place in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories: Portrait of the Artist as a Rebellious Texas Belle
[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Pratt treats the central role occupied by Southern history and culture in the Miranda stories, underscoring the steadfast fortitude of Porter's fictional alter ego.] There... -
From: Place in American Fiction: Excursions and Explorations
Place in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories: Portrait of the Artist as a Rebellious Texas Belle
[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Pratt emphasizes the importance of "place" in Porter's fiction, especially her "Miranda" stories, which the critic describes as "the heart of her achievement, her personal myth...