The angel of malignity: the cold beauty of Katherine Anne Porter

Article Abstract:

Katherine Anne Porter has not received the acclaim that she deserves for a variety of reasons. She was from the South, wrote from a female point of view and did her best work in the short story format. Her stories are masterpieces of gesture and description and they deserve a revival.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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Critics and their discontents

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Academic criticism has become a closed, elitist practice in which critics write papers for each other instead of for the purpose of teaching. However, there are still critics who write for the benefit of general society. Several of their recent books are discussed.

Analysis, Column, Practice, Critics, Criticism

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Wilder and the marvels of the heart

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Writer Thornton Wilder manages to capture the heart and minds of readers with his adherence to simplicity and the truth. Wilder's writings reflect a distillation of what amounts to a universal experience.

Novelists, Wilder, Thornton

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