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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Erskine Caldwell"”.
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The fiction of Erskine Caldwell
… defense of that last earthy story, and Caldwell, who was temporarily working in Hollywood, gave promise that he could satisfy both popular and critical tastes. Here was a writer out of the Southern Renaissance who wrote taut American English with a distinct social consciousness in the …
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The Early Thirties Novels of Erskine Caldwell (Depression, Southern, Grotesque)
Erskine Caldwell wrote his finest novels between 1930 and 1935. The three novels published during this period were perhaps his most unique, and certainly his most popular, contributions to American literature. God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road, and Journeyman described Georgia grotesques whose …
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The Influence and Subversion of the Southern Folk Tradition in the Novels of William Faulkner
… through an examination of Harris, Chesnutt and Erskine Caldwell, along with Faulkner, and Bakhtin and Rabelais’ discussion of the ‘physical’ and ‘psychological’ grotesque, the damage caused by mental illness or obsession with the past. I examine how the psychological state manifests in the …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
… Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Waldo Frank, Josephine Herbst, Abraham Cahan, and many others. This study examines the works of four of these travelers—Claude McKay, E.E. Cummings, Lillian Hellman, and John Steinbeck—each of whom travelled to the Soviet Union …