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Wright Morris and Deconstruction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher W Coates (corresponding author), Christopher Coates |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 567-576 |
| Publication date | 1991-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-022-03-17 |
| OpenAlex | W2013368781 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Wright Morris has said that "Each time a writer creates and solves the problems of fiction, he makes it possible for men and women to live in the world."1 Although he has received relatively little critical attention, Morris has expanded the barriers of fiction precisely by creating these problems- problems that explore the relationships between putative oppositions such as motion and stasis, past and present, fact and fiction. Among these uneasy alliances is perhaps Morris's most crucial problem: the integration of photography and prose in The Home Place, The Inhabitants and God's Country and My People. Disrupted by the juxtaposition of these visual and verbal texts, readers have acknowledged not only the problems with this relationship, but also Morris's lack of a "solution
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Deconstruction (building · Literature · Perspective (graphical · Photography · Sociology · Visual arts · Wright · History · Photography and Visual Culture · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |