The Critical Reception of Lewis Nordan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880819 |
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| Authors | Thomas Ærvold Bjerre (0000-0002-2242-8695, University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 922-934 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00751.x |
| OpenAlex | W2157330651 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The essay covers the critical reception of Mississippi‐writer Lewis Nordan from his debut in 1983 to the boost in scholarly attention in the new millennium. The essay covers newspaper reviews but pays particular attention to the many academic essays that have placed Nordan as a writer in the southern literary tradition and have highlighted themes such as magical realism, the grotesque, race relations, music, and gender
Art · Literature · Media studies · Newspaper · Race (biology · Realism · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Gender Studies · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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