| Description |
xi, 265 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
Setting (Literature)
|
|
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
|
|
Regionalism in literature.
|
|
Local color in literature.
|
| Added Author |
Weatherby, Harold L., 1934-
|
|
Sullivan, Walter, 1924-2006.
|
|
Core, George.
|
| ISBN |
0826215637 (alk. paper) |
|
9780826215635 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2105781 |
|
NZ1 8738439 |
|
