Wright Morris imposes his imagination on the chaos of recollected experience, creating a unified vision of reality from a threateningly indeterminate mass of raw material. This study examines how Morris transforms the commonplace, the past, and language in his fiction. A chapter on the commonplace bases its method on the Russian formalist concept of defamiliari- zation.
A chapter on the past is a psychological exploration of Morris's fictional use of incidents from his early life. And a chapter on language is inspired by recent critical explorations of the relation between language and reality.
| ISBN: | 9780820401812 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 1985 |
| Author: | Roy K Bird |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 147 pages |
| Series: | American University Studies. |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Wright Morris imposes his imagination on the chaos of recollected experience, creating a unified vision of reality from a threateningly indeterminate mass of raw material. This study examines how Morris transforms the commonplace, the past, and language in his fiction.
Wright Morris features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Wright Morris was written by Roy K Bird and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Wright Morris has 147 pages
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