Carson McCullers' The ballad of the sad cafe / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Ballad of the sad café.

McCullers, Carson.

Physical Description:

vii, 160 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

- Presents important and scholarly criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

Contents:

The introspective narrator in The ballad of the sad cafe / John McNally

Carson McCullers' literary ballad / Joseph R. Millichap

Rejection of the feminine in Carson McCullers' The ballad of the sad cafe / Panthea Reid Broughton

The ballad of the sad cafe (1943) / Margaret B. McDowell

Carson McCullers' Amazon nightmare / Louise Westling

Two voices of the single narrator in The ballad of the sad cafe / Mary Ann Dazey

The love ethos of Porter, Welty, and McCullers / Ruth M. Vande Kieft

From eros to agape : reconsidering the chain gang's song in McCullers's Ballad of the sad cafe / Margaret Whitt

Reading Miss Amelia : critical strategies in the construction of sex, gender, sexuality, the gothic and the grotesque / Clare Whatling

Carson McCullers's primal scenes : The ballad of the sad cafe / Doreen Fowler

Two bodies in one : The heart is a lonely hunter and The ballad of the sad cafe / Sarah Gleeson-White.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-150) and index.

ISBN:

0791081257

OCLC:

55600611