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Author Price, Joanna, 1961-

Title Understanding Bobbie Ann Mason / Joanna Price
Published Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (187 pages)
Series Understanding contemporary American literature
Understanding contemporary American literature.
Contents Biography and background -- Understanding Bobbie Ann Mason -- Shiloh and other stories -- In country -- Spence + Lila and Love life -- Feather crowns
Summary "Understanding Bobbie Ann Mason explores the literary accomplishments of a writer whose works straddle the line between highbrow literature and popular culture, an author whose writings are studied in academia and loved by general readers. Best known for her short story collections and her novels Feather Crowns, Spence + Lila, and In Country - the last of which is also a motion picture - Mason writes about small-town life in contemporary western Kentucky and the consumer culture that has replaced the agrarian values of previous generations. In this comprehensive analysis, Joanna Price offers an introduction to Mason's nonfiction prose, short stories, and novels, and sheds light on the writer's distinctive style and thematic concerns."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index
Notes English
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Subject Mason, Bobbie Ann -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Mason, Bobbie Ann fast
Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Rural conditions in literature.
Working class in literature.
Country life in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Country life in literature
Intellectual life
Literature
Rural conditions in literature
Women and literature
Working class in literature
SUBJECT Kentucky -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Kentucky -- In literature
Subject Kentucky
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00011152
ISBN 1423745035
9781423745037
9781570033810
1570033811