From the Blues to Jazz: Lewis Nordon's Fiction as " Equipment for Living"
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The main focus is made on a way of conceptualizing the arc of Lewis Nordan's career to date as a fiction writer, his development from short story writer to novelist, is to be offered. To describe the progression in terms that has both stylistic and philosophical implications, the ideas of two theorists, Albert Murray and Kenneth Burke are used.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2003
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"I Think I'm Beginning to See": The rustle of Lewis Nordan's Fiction
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Nordon addresses the topic of how language informs his fiction. Nordan's characters delight readers in the Shakespearean proportions of their comedy and pathos, but it is his attention to the language of storytelling that often makes his creations so vivid and memorable.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2003
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Music, Mirrors, and Mermaids: Shakespeare and the transformations power of language in Lewis Norda's Music of the Swamp
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The works of Lewis Nordan and comments on his latest renowned books like that of Music of the Swamp, Wolf Whistle, The Sharpshooter Blues, Lightening Song, are discussed. The comments on Lewis Nordan's work refers in some way or another to the 'music' of his prose.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2003
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