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Wakeful Anguish: A Literary Biography of William Humphrey by Ashby Bland Crowder
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Item specifics
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- Book Title
- Wakeful Anguish: A Literary Biography of William Humphrey
- Publication Date
- 2004-01-06
- Pages
- 403
- ISBN
- 9780807128879
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
LSU
ISBN-10
0807128872
ISBN-13
9780807128879
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2883419
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
403 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Wakeful Anguish : a Literary Biography of William Humphrey
Subject
Special Interest / Literary, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), General, Literary, American / General
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History
Series
Southern Literary Studies
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-018755
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Synopsis
In this deeply felt biography, Ashby Bland Crowder treats in near definitive fashion one of southern literature's unjustly neglected masters. In superb novels like Home from the Hill, The Ordways, and Proud Flesh as well as in the brilliant story collections The Last Husband and A Time and a Place, William Humphrey (1924--1997) created an imaginary East Texas Red River County, conjuring the speech and life rhythms of his native territory with artistic genius. Crowder's lyrical blending of biographical fact and incisive analysis corrects a mistaken view that Humphrey was among those writers mired in the pious cult of southern delusionary remembrance. From early short fiction set in a New York commuter village through late works of the Northeast, such as Hostages to Fortune and September Song, Humphrey allowed himself a psychic distance from the South that fueled an unsparing critique of its myths -- exemplified by the fierce deconstruction of Texas heroes found in his last novel, No Resting Place. In a poignant discussion of Humphrey's memoir, Farther Off from Heaven, Crowder demonstrates that the tragic death of his father led to Humphrey's overriding fictional themes of pain and inconsolable loss. Indeed, Crowder asserts that Humphrey failed to achieve literary renown in part because he evokes emotional experiences beyond what most people can endure. Humphrey's fiction derives its power from refusing to indulge in the false consolations of vanished people and history, from showing that living in the southern past is not living at all. Wakeful Anguish is among the first books about William Humphrey and will be greeted as one of the finest. Marshalling unpublished archival letters, interviews with persons who knew Humphrey at different stages in his life, and private correspondence and conversations between Humphrey and himself, Crowder achieves something rare in literary biography: a portrait that reveals both the sustained suffering in an author's life and work and his exultation in the triumph of his art.
LC Classification Number
PS3558.U448Z64 2003
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