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United States Authors Series: Mary Gordon: Twayne's United States Authors, cartea 671

Autor Alma Bennett
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 1996
Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work.

Each volume features:

-- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works

-- A brief biography of the author

-- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context

-- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index

-- A readable style presented in a manageable length

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780805740240
ISBN-10: 0805740244
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 145 x 222 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Twayne Publishers
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In the first full-length book on Mary Gordon, Alma Bennett adds a rich critical analysis of the writer's life and accomplishments to Twayne's United States Authors Series. Bennett draws on personal interviews with Gordon as well as other primary and secondary sources to provide students and scholars with a comprehensive introduction to Gordon's work and to the complex interplay between her personal history and public discourse. Through a discerning biographical sketch and chapters appraising each work in turn, Bennett traces Gordon's shifting thematic, structural, linguistic, and genre preoccupations during the first 20 years of her career. Special attention is given to the ways in which Gordon's literary trademarks (virtuosic language, moral seriousness, logical acuity, humor, candor, and intensity) serve her explorations of "enclosed circles of love, enmity, and loss" and of ways to connect "different passages of existence". Attention is also given to various labels, particularly that of "Catholic writer", which have been assigned to Gordon over the years. Lucid summaries help readers grasp the breadth of critical responses to Gordon's work. The final chapter, devoted to The Shadow Man, gives a circular shape to Bennett's study, providing an introduction and conclusion to autobiography and judgment. A refreshing contribution that will instruct students and scholars alike, Mary Gordon is suitable for secondary and college courses in contemporary American fiction and women's studies. The study includes excellent resources in the chronology, notes and references, bibliography, and index sections.