Additional Resources for Sophistication by Sherwood Anderson

This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Sophistication.

Additional Resources for Sophistication by Sherwood Anderson

This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Sophistication.
This section contains 213 words
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Abcarian, Richard. "Innocence and Experience in Winesburg, Ohio." University Review, Vol. 35, Winter, 1968, pp. 95-105.

Considers the wastefulness of human life to be the central focus of Anderson's novel.

Asselineau, Roger. "Beyond Realism: Sherwood Anderson's Transcendalist Aesthetics," The Transcendentalist Constant in American Literature, New York University Press, 1980, pp. 124-36.

Argues that each story in the novel is lyrical poetry.

Baker, Carlos. "Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg: A Reprise," The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 48, Autumn, 1972, pp. 568-79.

States that the themes of quest and suppression, not sexuality, unite the stories.

Boyd, Ernest. Introduction to Winesburg, Ohio, Modern Library, 1919.

Theorizes that the novel is a depiction of rebellion against American society.

Dewey, Joseph. "No God in The Sky and No God in Myself: 'Godliness' and Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Modern Fiction Studies, Summer, 1981, pp. 251-59.

Jesse Bentley unlocks the puritan vision of life for George Willard.

Gross, Barry. "The Revolt That Wasn't...

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