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| Name: |
Caroline Gordon | | Birth Date: |
October 6, 1895 | | Death Date: |
April 11, 1981 | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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Biography of Caroline Gordon
4,206 words, approx. 14 pages
 Caroline Gordon , novelist, short-story writer, and teacher of writers, is best known as a member of the Southern Renaissance, that literary phenomenon of the 1920s and 1930s which centered about the Fugitives and Southern Agrarians in Nashville,...
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Biography of Caroline Gordon
3,883 words, approx. 13 pages
 Although Caroline Gordon was far more productive as a novelist than as a short-story writer (she published nine novels and two story collections--not including her Collected Stories [1981]--plus a smattering of other stories), her critical reputation...
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Biography of Caroline Gordon
1,785 words, approx. 6 pages
 Caroline Gordon visited France twice during the twenties and thirties, in 1928-1929 and again in 1932-1933. She wrote much of her first two novels while living abroad, and she and her husband, poet Allen Tate, took an active part in the social and...



Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Caroline Gordon Information
508 words, approx. 2 pages
 Caroline Ferguson Gordon (October 61895—April 111981) was a notable American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, was the recipient of two prestigious literary awards, a 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1934 O. Henry...



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 National Review
Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance.
07/22/1988: 998 words, approx. 3 pages Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance, THE LITTLE of this biography implies at least three kinds of "close connections." First would be the "close connexion of bliss and bale" we know from Henry James's preface to What Maisie Knew, which...
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 Southern Quarterly
Caroline Gordon, Aleck Maury, and the Heroic Cycle
07/01/2004: 8,597 words, approx. 29 pages OVERSHADOWED DURING HER LIFETIME by her better-regarded husband, Allen Tate, because of her continued association with him and other white, male, Fugitive/Agrarian colleagues, Caroline Gordon is excluded by recent critics from the ongoing revision of traditional Southern fiction that has resurrected lesser talents. Certainly,...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by James E. Rocks
5,209 words, approx. 17 pages
 Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the work I'm doing at present. I see it in embryonic stages early on, and I begin to see what I thought were simply notes, because they didn't resemble my earlier work, were, actually in early form, the work that I have now begun to do … the new work, in other words. I didn't recognize it at first. I thought it was failed old w...
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Critical Essay by Thomas H. Landess
2,762 words, approx. 9 pages
 Miss Gordon's [early] stories rest on what were, at the time of their composition, relatively secure philosophical foundations, while her later works, including novels as well as short stories, are both structurally and texturally more complicated as a defense against those hostile armies which have appeared at the gates in ever-increasing numbers since the publication of The Forest of the South…. The philosophical assumptions to which I refer are ontological and define man's place in t...
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Critical Essay by Ashley Brown
2,172 words, approx. 7 pages
 [Miss Gordon] is a conscious heiress to what is probably the central tradition of modern fiction, which we can refer to, following some of its great practitioners, as the Impressionist novel…. Miss Gordon is more than the follower of a tradition; indeed, her innovations are bold and far-reaching. But she often works out her devices with an eye on the masters whom she honors. (pp. 279-80) Her method, if we may call it that, consists in subtly adjusting her prose medium to her subject. If she were a Re...


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