SOURCE: “On Devotion to the ‘Communal Order’: Wendell Berry's record of Fidelity, Interdependence, and Love,” in Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, Fall, 1994, pp. 9-28.
In the following essay, Whited views Berry's work as a repudiation of consumer culture in favor of an appreciation and understanding of a value system based on spiritual, communal, and familial concerns.
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