Such a rare thing : the art of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio / Clarence Lindsay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindsay, Clarence B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941. Winesburg, Ohio.

Anderson, Sherwood.

City and town life in literature.

Ohio--In literature.

Ohio.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 223 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2009]

Summary:

This critical study of Sherwood Anderson's most famous and perhaps most widely taught work, Winesburg, Ohio, treats it as a thoroughly modernist novel examining the aesthetic nature of romantic identity.

The first sustained critical analysis of this American classic restores Anderson to the top rank of American artists, placing him alongside other intense scrutinizers of American romanticism: Hawthorne, Melville, and Hemingway.

Contents:

"I belong in little towns": Anderson's provincial postmodernism

The interpretation of dreams: aesthetic crises in "Hands"

Onanism in Eden: loving and hating women in "Respectability"

Moving on up and staying there: the social success as grotesque in "The strength of God"

Enoch Robinson is the woman in the shadows: the critique of the romantic artist in "Loneliness"

Going all the way when you can't go far: sex, class, and identity in "Nobody knows"

Men are stupid critics; women are discerning artists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219) and index.

ISBN:

9780873389815

0873389816

OCLC:

246200593