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A New Book of the Grotesques Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction 2005, 160 pp
courtesy of our partner, Atlas Books |
The first extensive treatment of Sherwood Anderson's work from a postmodern perspective
Sherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about
life in the Midwest at the turn of the century, was acknowledged as an
innovator of the short story form and a major influence on such writers
as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Valuable critical studies have
examined his works from biographical, New Critical, or psychoanalytical
approaches, but contemporary criticism on Anderson has been nearly nonexistent.
A New Book of the Grotesques (the title is adapted from the first tale in Winesburg, Ohio) does not challenge previous studies of Anderson as much as it looks at Anderson’s early fiction from contemporary interpretative methodologies, particularly from poststructuralist approaches. With this study, author Robert Dunne breaks new ground in Sherwood Anderson scholarship: his is the first sustained, full-length critical work on Anderson from a postmodern theoretical perspective and is the first study of a substantial body of Anderson’s work to be published in more than thirty years.
A New Book of the Grotesques is an important critical study that adds significantly to the field and to the understanding of Sherwood Anderson’s fiction and the modernist period.
Robert Dunne is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. He has published a book on Irish immigrant writings and articles on Anderson, Faulkner, and the American literary canon in such journals as MidAmerica, Midwest Quarterly, American Literary Realism, and Studies in Short Fiction.
Of related interest:
American Spring Song: The Selected Poems of Sherwood Anderson edited by Stuart Downs
Such a Rare Thing: The Art of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio by Clarence Lindsay
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