By Ellen Douglas (Algonquin hardcover, $18.95, ISBN: 1565122143; Plume paperback, $12.95, ISBN: 0452281024, 9/1999) Earnest, searching inquiry into family and regional history and the pivotal but mutable role memory plays in both by one of the true grand dames of southern letters. Douglas, author of seven books of fiction (Can\u27t Quit You Baby, 1988; A Lifetime Burning, 1982; The Rock Cried Out, 1979;) turns to nonfiction, though her musings on the connections between life and art demonstrate how unsatisfactory genre classifications can be. As the narrative moves backward in time (each selection exploring an earlier period than the preceding one), the style changes from fiction to personal essay. Grant, about a terminally ill uncle wh...
I’d never been to “Sunnyside” until a few weeks ago. So, the opportunity to tour Ellen White’s Austr...
This PhD is in two parts. The first, is an 80,000-word short story cycle, The Wind off the River, wh...
<p><i>*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*</i></p>This paper is a work of creat...
By Ellen Douglas (Algonquin hardcover, $18.95, ISBN: 1565122143; Plume paperback, $12.95, ISBN: 0452...
When Ellen Douglas started writing, she drew inspiration from the way William Faulkner and other sou...
This dissertation, \u27All This World Is Full of Mystery:\u27 The Fiction of Ellen Douglas, provid...
As women began to establish themselves in the United States workforce in the first half of the twent...
The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. T...
Joyce Carol Oates draws extensively on news stories, as well as on elements of her own family’s past...
A proposal for a creative non-fiction book using original family letters and other documents brought...
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) was an American novelist, famous toward the end of the 19th c...
This creative non-fiction dissertation about growing up in Louisiana during the Thirties and Forties...
In my paper ‘Mixing Memory with the Desire to Forget’ given at the Australian Association of Writing...
Despite recent controversies over ‘faked’ memoirs, most readers of life writing continue to trust in...
Aside from the fact that most of Flannery O\u27Connor\u27s works are set in the South where she live...
I’d never been to “Sunnyside” until a few weeks ago. So, the opportunity to tour Ellen White’s Austr...
This PhD is in two parts. The first, is an 80,000-word short story cycle, The Wind off the River, wh...
<p><i>*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*</i></p>This paper is a work of creat...
By Ellen Douglas (Algonquin hardcover, $18.95, ISBN: 1565122143; Plume paperback, $12.95, ISBN: 0452...
When Ellen Douglas started writing, she drew inspiration from the way William Faulkner and other sou...
This dissertation, \u27All This World Is Full of Mystery:\u27 The Fiction of Ellen Douglas, provid...
As women began to establish themselves in the United States workforce in the first half of the twent...
The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. T...
Joyce Carol Oates draws extensively on news stories, as well as on elements of her own family’s past...
A proposal for a creative non-fiction book using original family letters and other documents brought...
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) was an American novelist, famous toward the end of the 19th c...
This creative non-fiction dissertation about growing up in Louisiana during the Thirties and Forties...
In my paper ‘Mixing Memory with the Desire to Forget’ given at the Australian Association of Writing...
Despite recent controversies over ‘faked’ memoirs, most readers of life writing continue to trust in...
Aside from the fact that most of Flannery O\u27Connor\u27s works are set in the South where she live...
I’d never been to “Sunnyside” until a few weeks ago. So, the opportunity to tour Ellen White’s Austr...
This PhD is in two parts. The first, is an 80,000-word short story cycle, The Wind off the River, wh...
<p><i>*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*</i></p>This paper is a work of creat...