
Understanding Jane Smiley
Revised Edition
Neil Nakadate(Author)
University of South Carolina Press
2nd Edition
Published on 18. February 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-57003-858-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers an insightful introduction to the strikingly imaginative range of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. This fully updated edition of the only book-length study of Jane Smiley serves as a comprehensive survey of the innovative author's literary career in relation to her social, intellectual, and creative convictions. Neil Nakadate's study is organized around close readings of Smiley's major fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ""A Thousand Acres"". Nakadate also examines her key essays and nonfiction as a means of adding an additional perspective on her novels. The volume's updated biographical material benefits from an unpublished interview conducted with Smiley in 2008, and the citations and extensive bibliography have also been updated, making this new edition an ideal point of entrance for readers eager to understand Smiley's complete body of work.
Reviews / Votes
"Nakadate effectively knits together the themes, plots, and characters of an experimental author.... A solid jumping-off point for critics and a useful companion for readers." - American Literature"More details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
Adult education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57003-858-7 (9781570038587)
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Person
Neil Nakadate is a University Professor of English at Iowa State University. He has edited two books on Robert Penn Warren and is coauthor of Writing in the Liberal Arts Tradition and coeditor of A Rhetoric of Doing: Essays on Written Discourse in Honor of James L. Kinneavy.