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Jean Stafford | | Birth Date: |
July 1, 1915 | | Death Date: |
March 26, 1979 | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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Biography of Jean Stafford
4,908 words, approx. 16 pages
 Jean Wilson Stafford, a brilliant practitioner of the craft of fiction, has few equals among the post-World War II generation of novelists and short-story writers who worked within the literary modes and conventions of the realistic tradition. Early in...
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Biography of Jean Stafford
2,311 words, approx. 8 pages
 Jean Stafford has defined the role of the novelist as that of telling the truth: "the problem is how to tell the truth so persuasively and vividly that our readers are taken in and made to believe that the tale is true, that these events have happened...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jean Stafford Information
303 words, approx. 1 pages
 Jean Stafford (July 1, 1915 - March 26, 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970. Born in California, her first novel, Boston Adventure was a...




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 The Washington Post
Jean Stafford (1915-1979) o ...
08/28/2005: 409 words, approx. 1 pages Jean Stafford (1915-1979) originally made her name as a novelist - - her first, Boston Adventure (1944), was a bestseller, and her second (of three) and best, The Mountain Lion (1947), is a haunting portrait of a Western childhood -- but in time she...
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 Yearbook of English Studies
Dis/figuration in the Stories of Jean Stafford.
01/01/2001: 4,563 words, approx. 15 pages Abstract This article explores the complex relationships between bodily change and psychic disturbance as represented in the stories of Jean Stafford. It is argued that Stafford is intensely aware of the significance of the material body in the formation of identity. Drawing...
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 The New York Observer
Art and Artists on a Pedestal\'d1 In Town and in the Country
11/20/2005: 1,298 words, approx. 4 pages On Sunday night, at the dead center of the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral cavity, the performance artist Marina Abramović re-enacted a Joseph Beuys performance from 1965 called How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. Honey was used to adhere gold leaf to her face; it...
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 The New York Observer
Art and Artists on a Pedestal- In Town and in the Country
11/20/2005: 1,299 words, approx. 4 pages On Sunday night, at the dead center of the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral cavity, the performance artist Marina Abramovi c re-enacted a Joseph Beuys performance from 1965 called How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. Honey was used to adhere gold leaf to her face;...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by William G. Leary
5,503 words, approx. 18 pages
 In this essay, Leary relates Stafford's personal experiences, particularly her tempestuous relationship with husband Robert Lowell, to the short story "The Interior Castle, " stating the story "may be viewed as a metaphor of Stafford's own battle for survival."
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Critical Essay by Maureen Ryan
5,357 words, approx. 18 pages
 In the following essay, Ryan discusses Stafford's depiction of women and children in her short fiction.


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