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Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780299143602)
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xSherwood Anderson, an important American novelist and short-story writer of the early twentieth century, is probably best known for his novel Winesburg, Ohio. His realistic and nonformulaic writing style would influence the next generation of authors, most notably Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.
Walter Rideout s Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America is a seminal work that reintroduces us to this important, yet recently neglected, American writer, giving him long overdue attention. This second volume of the monumental two-volume work covers Anderson s life after his move in the mid-1920s to Ripshin, his house near Marion, Virginia (where Volume 1 ended.) The second volume covers his return to business pursuits; his extensive travels in the South touring factories, which resulted in his political involvement in labor struggles and several books on the topic; and finally his unexpected death in 1941.
No other existing Anderson biography, the most recent of which was published nearly twenty years ago, is as thoroughly researched, so extensively based on primary sources and interviews with a range of Anderson s friends and family members, or as complete in its vision of the man and the writer. Rideout uncovers much new information about events and people in Anderson s life and provides a new perspective on many of his works. This two-volume biography presents Anderson s many remarkable attributes more clearly than ever before, while astutely placing his life and writings in the broader social, political, and artistic movements of his times.
Walter Rideout s Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America is a seminal work that reintroduces us to this important, yet recently neglected, American writer, giving him long overdue attention. This second volume of the monumental two-volume work covers Anderson s life after his move in the mid-1920s to Ripshin, his house near Marion, Virginia (where Volume 1 ended.) The second volume covers his return to business pursuits; his extensive travels in the South touring factories, which resulted in his political involvement in labor struggles and several books on the topic; and finally his unexpected death in 1941.
No other existing Anderson biography, the most recent of which was published nearly twenty years ago, is as thoroughly researched, so extensively based on primary sources and interviews with a range of Anderson s friends and family members, or as complete in its vision of the man and the writer. Rideout uncovers much new information about events and people in Anderson s life and provides a new perspective on many of his works. This two-volume biography presents Anderson s many remarkable attributes more clearly than ever before, while astutely placing his life and writings in the broader social, political, and artistic movements of his times.
Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
Winner, Biography Award, Society of Midland Authors"
Author: Wolfgang Mieder
ISBN-10: 0299143600
ISBN-13: 9780299143602
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2006
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.81h x 5.78w x 0.96d
By Wolfgang Mieder
xWolfgang Mieder is professor of German and folklore and chair of the Department of German and Russian at the University of Vermont. Author of more than sixty books on folklore and proverbs, including Proverbs Are Never Out of Season and Howl Like a Wolf: Animal Proverbs, Mieder is co-editor of A Dictionary of American Proverbs and A Dictionary of Wellerisms. Alan Dundes is professor of folklore and anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. His books available from the University of Wisconsin Press include Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist and several folklore casebooks: The Cockfight, The Evil Eye, The Blood Libel Legend, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood.
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