The range and variety of Jane Smiley's work as a writer of fiction have resulted in a great deal of critical attention, a wide and committed readership, and several different perceptions of her achiev...
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Jane Smiley has also won acclaim for her work as an author of short fiction. In The Age of Grief: Stories and a Novella (1987), Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Nove...
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In the following essay, Carden asserts that Smiley's A Thousand Acres exposes a cultural amnesia created by agrarian life in America that tends to forget and silence the stories of women.
Be...
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In the following essay, Schiff discusses Smiley's rewriting of King Lear in A Thousand Acres.
In this century, and particularly since Joyce's Ulysses, numerous novels and poems have a...
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In the following essay, Olson studies the relationship between food and power in Smiley's A Thousand Acres.
I'm the angriest person in the restaurant; I'm the only angry person...
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In the following essay, Mathieson discusses how Smiley presents nature and man's relationship to it in A Thousand Acres.
The recognition of nature's shaping influence on human identit...
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In the following review, Eder complains that Smiley's A Thousand Acres, with its reversal of King Lear, does not work.
A problem novel is a problem. If it is a detective story, say, or an ex...
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In the following review, Christiansen asserts that Smiley's “A Thousand Acres has a moral weight, a technical accomplishment and a sheer eloquence that demands some special recognition.&...
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In the following essay, Bakerman discusses Smiley's vision of life in A Thousand Acres.
The dustjacket of Jane Smiley's fine new novel, A Thousand Acres, features a beautiful Amish qu...
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In the following essay, Rozga compares and contrasts Smiley's A Thousand Acres and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie.
Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie and Jane Smiley's A...
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In the following essay, Keppel traces the reasons why Smiley chooses to tell A Thousand Acres from the perspective of Ginny (the Goneril character).
Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize winning nove...
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People tend to cope with society by agreeing and accepting what they are receiving in life. Life can be an adventure that takes you into another world but you can always bring yourself back into your ...
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A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley is a story about a family living in a piece of land of 1000 acres for three generations. At one level, it tells us how the Cook's family came to the farm and how they...
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Jane Smiley uses the characters' changing personalities and attitudes in A Thousand Acres to demonstrate the major effect the break up of a family can have on people. Many of the characters change thr...
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Teaching A Thousand Acres
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A Thousand Acres Lesson Plans contain 135 pages of teaching material, including:
Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-reali...
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Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-reali...
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Jane (Graves) Smiley
Critical Essay by Mary Paniccia Carden
A Thousand Acres
Smiley\'d5s Guide to the Novel\'d1 A Cure for What Ails You
