Critical essays on Carson McCullers / edited by Beverly Lyon Clark and Melvin J. Friedman.

Contributor Clark, Beverly Lyon.

Imprint:New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1996.

Descriptionxiii, 240 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Inner landscape / Richard Wright. - Pitiful hunt for security / May Sarton. - The lonely heart / Julian Symons. - Masterpiece at 24 / [James Agee]. - [Review of] Reflections in a golden eye / Rose Feld. - Novelist repeats success / B.R. - An adolescent's four days / George Dangerfield. - Metaphysical fiction / Marguerite Young. [Review of] The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: The novels and stories of Carson McCullers / William P. Clancy. - Books in general / V.S. Pritchett. - Plot me no plots / John Mason Brown. - Mood indigo / Kenneth Tynan. - Private worlds / Richard Hayes. - In the shadow of death / Irving Howe. - Death and life in a small southern town / Rumer Godden. - Clock Without Hands belongs in yesterday's tower of ivory / Dorothy Parker. - Southern justice / Penelope Mortimer. - A private apprenticeship / Nadine Gordimer. - The Mortgaged Heart: the workshop of Carson McCullers / Melvin J. Friedman.

Note:The Watchers/ Muriel Rukeyser. - The author / Tennessee Williams. - I wish I had written The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers / Kay Boyle. - Tennessee and Carson: notes on a concept for a play / David Madden. - Her own enduring heart / William Trevor.

Note:Carson McCullers and the South / Delma Eugene Presley. - Carson McCullers: the aesthetic of pain / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. - The case of Carson McCullers / Oliver Evans. - [A feminist reading: McCullers's Heart is the Lonely Hunter] / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. - Carson McCullers, lonely huntress: [Reflections in Golden Eye] / Hugo McPherson. - Fighting for life / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. - Tomboys and revolting feminity / Louise Westling. - [A materialist reading of Clock without Hands] / Cicely Palser Havely. - Freaking out: the short stories of Carson McCullers / Robert Phillips. - Two planetary systems / Robert Aldridge. - Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: a song half song, misogyny, and "ganging up" / Suzanne Morrow Paulson. - Erasing the "We of Me" and rewriting the racial script: Carson McCullers's two Member(s) of the Wedding / Thadious M. Davis. - Homoerotics and human connections: reading Carson McCullers "as a lesbian" / Lori J. Kenschaft.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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