... to more than two dozen in 1998. Vladimir Nabokov and Jack Kerouac tie for first place with five books each, although a number of writers, including the frequently overlooked John O’Hara, Henry Roth, Conrad Aiken, and Jean Sta√ord, feature in either individ- ual book-length studies, book...

..., and demonstrate that modernist writers were aware of and in some cases influenced by the works of their predecessors and contemporaries. The works of Flannery O’Connor and Vladimir Nabokov are especially popular with critics, with O’Connor the subject of four books and Nabokov seven. Substantial...

.... A number of authors are the recipi- ents of one or more book-length studies, including John Steinbeck, James Agee, Dorothy Parker, Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, Ayn Rand, and Jack Kerouac. Ralph Ellison and Vladimir Nabokov are the focus of Cambridge...

... Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, Margaret Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, and Djuna Barnes are the focus of book-length critical studies, for instance, and Ray Bradbury, J. D. Salinger, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett are the sub- jects of biographical commentary. Thomas Wolfe...

... to this chapter, including among others Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, James Baldwin, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Bowles, Chester Himes, and Saul Bellow, Dickstein shows how ‘‘the changes in American fiction’’ during this era ‘‘reflected the transformation...

..., Vladimir Nabokov, Wallace Stegner, and the Beat movement each receive one or more book-length studies, and substantial biographies appear on Nabokov, O’Connor, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and John Clellon Holmes. Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Saul Bellow are honored with volumes...

...Catherine Calloway 15  Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway As in previous years, modern fiction writers continue to generate much critical debate. Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Eudora Welty, and Vladimir Nabokov are the subjects of book-length studies. Welty...

... field recordings that Hurston used to stage songs and scenes from The Great Day and placing them into conversation with her writing of and about Black drama, especially in regard to Hurston s essay Characteristics of Negro Expression. iii Expatriates and Émigrés a. Vladimir Nabokov Studies...

.... John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Flannery O Connor, and Marjorie Kin- nan Rawlings all receive one or more monographs; Vladimir Nabokov, Eudora Welty, and the Beats essay collections; Saul Bellow a substantial biography; William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg the transcript of a previously...

... in the family unit and breaks the pattern of earlier female South- ern writers who project . . . gender alienation onto African Americans iii Expatriates and Émigrés a. Vladimir Nabokov Gavriel Shapiro in Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov s Invitation to a Beheading (Peter Lang) concentrates...

... O’Connor are especially popular, with three books and a number of individual essays devoted to each. James Baldwin and Erskine Caldwell receive essay collections, and Richard Wright and Vladimir Nabokov are the focus of a dozen items each. In contrast to 2005 there are no substantial biographies...

..., Djuna Barnes, Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, and Vladimir Nabokov, receive book-length studies or a wealth of individual essays. James Baldwin and Wallace Stegner are the focus of substantial biographies, while Ralph Ellison and Nabokov inspire pedagogical studies. Thomas...

...Catherine Calloway Duke University Press 2011 15  Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s Catherine Calloway Scholarly publications on modern fiction increase this year. A number of writers, including James Baldwin, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Vladimir Nabokov...

... of these items are unavailable in English. For instance, over a third of the material treating Vladimir Nabokov is published only in languages other than English, which precludes the mention of those items in this chapter. However, the proliferation of international scholarship on writ- ers of the United States...

.... David Strange, “Bibliography” ( pp. 159–62), provides a brief, partially annotated bibliography of recent works published about Wolfe. iii  Expatriates and Émigrés a. Vladimir Nabokov  In Nabokov’s Theatrical Imagination (Cam- bridge) Siggy Frank seeks to bridge a gap in Nabokov scholarship...

.... The writings of Richard Wright, Baldwin, O’Connor, and Vladimir Nabokov inspire substantial critical debate. In addition to such usual topics as gender, race, class, reli- gion, genre, and culture, explorations of the modernist spirit, political approaches, film studies, and science fiction are also...

... Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s John L. Idol Jr. in ‘‘Thomas Wolfe Gets Over Himself ’’ (AppalJ 27: 344– 53) discusses Wolfe’s eventual discovery that his native Appalachia o√ered a wealth of material for his writing. iii Expatriates and Émigrés a. Vladimir Nabokov In Zina’s Paradox: The Figured...

... Expatriates and Émigrés a. Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov’s fiction is the subject of one book and several articles. In Nabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction (McFarland) Barbara Wyllie ‘‘place[s] Nabokov in America’s literary and Catherine Calloway 361...

... Novel to Film” (pp. 65–77), Carson McCullers in McKay Jenkins’s “Dramatizing The Member of the Wedding” (pp. 90–105), Vladimir Nabokov in Robert Stam’s “Film and Narration: Two Versions of Lolita” (pp. 106–26), Flannery O’Connor in Matthew Bernstein’s “John Huston’s Wise Blood” (pp. 139–63...

... Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s iii  Expatriates and Émigrés a. Vladimir Nabokov  Timothy L. Parrish in “Nabokov, Dostoevski, Proust: Despair” (StTCL 28: 445–77) asserts that in Despair Nabokov “uses Proust’s example to dramatize his own mastery of the Dostoevskian aesthetic and moral dilemmas...