Additional Resources for Hands by Sherwood Anderson

This Study Guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Hands.

Additional Resources for Hands by Sherwood Anderson

This Study Guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Hands.
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Howe, Irving, Sherwood Anderson, William Sloan Associates, 1951.

A highly readable critical biography by a man who admired Anderson's early works, and who was strongly disappointed by the later ones. Howe does not address "Hands" separately, but devotes a chapter to the influences and themes of Winesburg, Ohio. Still the most important book-length Anderson study.

Papinchak, Robert Allen, Sherwood Anderson: A Study of the Short Fiction, Twayne, 1992.

A thorough analysis of all of Anderson's short fiction. Papinchak uses "Hands" as an example to illustrate Anderson's "representative stylistic technique," citing the use of hands as a repeated symbol, and the author's clean and direct sentence style.

Small, Judy Jo, A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson, G. K. Hall, 1994.

In a useful chapter on "Hands," Small outlines circumstances of composition of the story, Ander son's sources and influences, the publication history, some connections between the...

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