Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country
Bloom, Harold2004
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
Examines different aspects of Paton's novel about race relations in South Africa, with a biographical sketch of the author and critical essays on this work
Main title:
Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Author:
Imprint:
Philadelphia Chelsea House 2004
Collation:
120 p.
Contents:
Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- Horton Davies on inspiration -- Sheridan Baker on the book as moral geography -- Edmund Fuller on tragedy -- Martin Tucker on the novel of forgiveness -- Myron Matlaw on stylistic understatement -- Robert L. Duncan on the suffering servant -- J.M. Coetzee on simple language -- Tony Adler on Cry, the beloved country and Lost in the stars -- Carol Iannone on Paton's tragic liberalism -- Mark Hestenes on Graham Greene and Alan Paton -- Works by Alan Paton
ISBN:
0791075729 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.914 PAT
Local class:
823.914
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
13228
More Information: