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A Thousand Acres Lesson Plan
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| Name: |
Jane (Graves) Smiley | | Variant Name: |
Jane (Graves) Smiley, Jane Graves Smiley | | Birth Date: |
September 26, 1949 | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Jane (Graves) Smiley
4303 words, approx. 14.3 pages
 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 achievement. Smiley's novels, particularly those following T... summary from source:
Biography of Jane (Graves) Smiley
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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 Novellas (1989), The Life of the Body: A Story (1990), and...
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 A Thousand Acres Information
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 A Thousand Acres is a 1991 award winning novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. The novel is a contemporary deconstruction of Shakespeare's King Lear and is set...
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 The Washington Post `Thousand Acres': Fallow Melodrama
09/19/1997: 528 words, approx. 2 pages THAT JANE SMILEY'S "A Thousand Acres" would become a movie was inevitable. Another virtual certainty was its bowdlerization. The novelist's successful respinning of Shakespeare's "King Lear," set in the rural Midwest of 1979, was about a ruthless, aging father, whose 1,000-acre farm --... summary from source:
Evening Standard - London Risk to thousands of acres of protected land
03/12/2007: 441 words, approx. 2 pages MORE than 10,000 acres of green belt land are under threat from developers including BP, British Aerospace and the Queen, it emerged today. They could make billions of pounds from building thousands of houses on protected land under plans to meet the Government's... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Smiley\'d5s Guide to the Novel\'d1 A Cure for What Ails You
10/16/2005: 1,209 words, approx. 4 pagesChalk 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-realistic horror, while others about-faced into fantasy. What Jane Smiley did, as... summary from source:
The New York Observer Smiley's Guide to the Novel- A Cure for What Ails You
10/16/2005: 1,209 words, approx. 4 pagesChalk 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-realistic horror, while others about-faced into fantasy. What Jane Smiley did, as...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Mary Paniccia Carden
9,789 words, approx. 33 pages
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.
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Critical Essay by Barbara Mathieson
6,904 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Mathieson discusses how Smiley presents nature and man's relationship to it in A Thousand Acres.
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 Essay Grade: 86%Change of the Relationship between the Three Sisters
1,589 words, approx. 5 pages
Examines the novel, A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley. Explores the changing relationship between the three Cook sisters in the book. Describes how the deterioration of the relationship establishes a sad and depressing tone for the novel. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 88%The Effects of a Family Breakup in "A Thousand Acres"
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In "A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley, the characters' personalities and attitudes change following the breakup of the family. Some of the characters become more introverted, while others become more outspoken. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 89%A Thousand Acres
791 words, approx. 3 pages
Identifying the "spiritual reassessment or moral reconciliation" evident in the ending and explain its significance in the novel as a whole.
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