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Such a Rare Thing: The Art of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
Clarence Lindsay
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Description for Such a Rare Thing: The Art of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
Paperback. A study of Sherwood Anderson's work, "Winesburg, Ohio", that treats it as a thoroughly modernist novel examining the aesthetic nature of romantic identity. It argues that Anderson's famous theory of the Grotesque is a theory of American identity. Num Pages: 192 pages, notes, biblio., index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
This book is an important contribution to the field of American literary studies.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.Author Clarence Lindsay argues that Anderson's famous theory of the Grotesque is a theory of American identity. Each of the small town's grotesques in effect authors a romantic narrative that privileges the self. In trying to live their lives by that narrative, each enacts a romantic selfhood. Each of these romantic selfhoods is an aesthetic enterprise, complicated by all ... Read more
This book is an important contribution to the field of American literary studies.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.Author Clarence Lindsay argues that Anderson's famous theory of the Grotesque is a theory of American identity. Each of the small town's grotesques in effect authors a romantic narrative that privileges the self. In trying to live their lives by that narrative, each enacts a romantic selfhood. Each of these romantic selfhoods is an aesthetic enterprise, complicated by all ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9780873389815
SKU
V9780873389815
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About Clarence Lindsay
Clarence Lindsay received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is a professor of English at the University of Toledo and has contributed articles to such scholarly journals as Victorian Poetry, Studies in the Novel, The Hemingway Review, The Critical Review, and MidAmerica
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