Place in American fiction : excursions and explorations /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Weatherby, Harold L., 1934-, Sullivan, Walter, 1924-2006, Core, George
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2004]
Subjects:	American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Setting (Literature) Place (Philosophy) in literature. Regionalism in literature. Local color in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: a ball of golden thread / George Core
Thoughts on fictional places / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Places we have come from, places we have been / George Garrett
The Delta / Charles East
One writer's sense of place / Elizabeth Spencer
Place in my fiction / Martha Lacy Hall
Imagination in place / Wendell Barry
Faulkner's wilderness / H.L. Weatherby
Place in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda stories: portrait of the artist as a rebellious Texas belle / William Pratt
Place in Robert Penn Warren's life and work / Joseph Blotner
The outside of the inside: the vision of time and place in Eudora Welty / Lewis P. Simpson
Eudora Welty's sense of place / Denis Donoghue
St. Paul boy / Scott Donaldson
Purgatory in the midwest: the white martyrdom of Urban Roche / Robert Benson
"A tyrannous sense of place": notes on Wallace Stegner's lyrical realism / Thomas Bontly
Early Updike: wandering in the fields of the Lord / Pat C. Hoy II
Places and spaces in the fiction of Walter Sullivan / Martha E. Cook
Walter Sullivan: a profile / George Core
Winter in the mountains / David Middleton.