Understanding Anne Tyler / by Alice Hall Petry.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Understanding contemporary American literaturePublication details: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, Description: x, 267 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 087249716X
  • 9780872497160
  • 0872497429
  • 9780872497429
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Understanding Anne Tyler.DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 20
LOC classification:
  • PS3570.Y45 Z83 1990
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Understanding Anne Taylor -- If Morning Ever Comes and The Tin Can Tree -- A Slipping-Down Life -- The Clock Winder -- Celestial Navigation -- Searching for Caleb -- Earthly Possessions and Morgan's Passing -- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant -- The Accidental Tourist -- Breathing Lessons.
Summary: This first full-length study of Anne Tyler examines the patterns reappearing throughout her 11 novels. Petry explains that in the past Tyler has been classified as a woman's writer, a Southern writer influenced by Faulkner, and even a Dickensian, all of which labels are disproved. Instead, Petry suggests the strong influence of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and 19th-century Russian playwrights, especially Chekhov. Although Tyler does not care for the strident feminist work of the early 1970s, she does admit to a preference for the fiction of Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers, Southern authors whose works also transcend categorization. Her humanistic purpose, "remaining functional" in the face of oppressive circumstances, reflects these influences. ISBN 0-87249-716-X: $24.95.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-259) and index.

Understanding Anne Taylor -- If Morning Ever Comes and The Tin Can Tree -- A Slipping-Down Life -- The Clock Winder -- Celestial Navigation -- Searching for Caleb -- Earthly Possessions and Morgan's Passing -- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant -- The Accidental Tourist -- Breathing Lessons.

Also issued online.

This first full-length study of Anne Tyler examines the patterns reappearing throughout her 11 novels. Petry explains that in the past Tyler has been classified as a woman's writer, a Southern writer influenced by Faulkner, and even a Dickensian, all of which labels are disproved. Instead, Petry suggests the strong influence of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and 19th-century Russian playwrights, especially Chekhov. Although Tyler does not care for the strident feminist work of the early 1970s, she does admit to a preference for the fiction of Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers, Southern authors whose works also transcend categorization. Her humanistic purpose, "remaining functional" in the face of oppressive circumstances, reflects these influences. ISBN 0-87249-716-X: $24.95.

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