...Eugene Chesnick The Achievement of William Styron . Edited by Morris Robert K. Malin Irving . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1975 . Pp. 280 . $12.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 124 South Atlantic Quarterly new nation. The prejudice against...

...Jerry H. Bryant Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 The Hopeful Stoicism of William Styron Jerry H. Bryant He who, oppressed by sorrows numberless And driven from his realm, with unbent neck Carries his burdens, not degenerate Or conquered, who stands firm beneath the weight Of all...

...Jonathan Baumbach Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Paradise Lost: The Novels of William Styron Jonathan Baumbach Son, you don t have to be a campfollower of reaction but always remember where you came from. The ground is bloody and full of guilt where you were bom and you must...

...Charles A. Fenton Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 It s the age of the slob. If we don t watch out they re going to drag us under, you know. William Styron, Set This House on Fire (1960) WILLIAM STYRON and the Ag© ©$ th® Sl©b Charles A. Fenton One of the heartening episodes...

...Robert F. Durden Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 William Styron and His Black Critics Robert F. Durden Together with receiving the Pulitzer Prize and other kudos for The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron has also been the target for a goodly share of critical brickbats...

...Frederick C. Stern Styron s Choice Frederick C. Stern What can you say about a white, southern, Protestant male writer whose reputation rests on books respectively about a young woman, a Black revolutionary slave leader, and a Polish Catholic victim of the Holocaust of World War II? William Styron...

...William J. McGill Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 William Styron s Nat Turner and Religion William J. McGill Both a great deal of the enthusiasm and most of the sharpest criti­ cism which William Styron s The Confessions of Nat Turner first gen­ erated were as much products...

...Alan Holder Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Styron s Slave The Confessions of Nat Turner Alan Holder In his book on slavery, published almost a decade ago, Stanley Elkins wrote: There is a painful touchiness in all aspects of the subject. . . . How a person thinks about Negro...

... first half year, brought in $165,000 for movie rights alone, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This is William Styron s The Confessions of Nat Turner the story, as you know, of a slave revolt of the 183O s in southern Virginia led by one Nat Turner. Not much is really known about...

... regionalist, however, as several of the critics and Styron himself in an interview point out, needs drastic reconsideration, if indeed the idea is useful at all now. Some of the contributors are not sparing in their reservations about Styron s work. The complaints are the ones most often heard: the novelist s...

... letters the societal tensions of the Black Power era were mirrored in the controversy created by the publication of William Styron s The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967). While liberal whites such as Martin Duberman and C. Vann Woodward felt that the best-selling novel was both a superlative history...

... and the society he chooses to live and do battle in. The chapter on William Styron singles him out as the best of the younger generation of authors who still write in the Southern mode and attempts to define what this- mode now is. Whereas the older Southern writers assumed a relationship between their char­...

.... A Spenglerian biography of Calhoun furnished the text for Lytle s essay on Calhoun published in the Southern Review in 1938. This biography, Arthur Styron s The Cast-Iron Man: John C. Cal­ houn and American Democracy (1935), purported to trace the decline of American democracy, and made of Calhoun a kind...

... in Calhoun s public career, can it be called a booklength biography. Equally homiletical, but more sophisticated than Pinckney s book, is Arthur Styron s The Cast-Iron Man: John C. Calhoun and Ameri­ can Democracy, published in 1935. A reader may well impute to the author of this book a strong Catholic...

... of sentences that mirror the music of motives and movement? People are too sophisticated now, said William Styron not long ago, when he predicted that the only credible novel is the one which acts like reporting, like jour­ nalism, that supposedly new fiction, the only kind that people know to be true...

... THEODORE ROPP The Achievement of William Styron. Edited by Robert K. Mor­ ris and Irving Malin. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1975. Pp. 280. $12.00. What this collection of critical essays reveals most clearly perhaps is the struggle of the novelist to use material already beginning to seem a little...

... is easy on the grotesque, implying that the adjective means very little (or more than it should). He dismisses Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Grass Harp-, he calls Set This House on Fire great. In these in­ stances Mr. Hoffman values a novel for its ideas Styron deals with Life and Death; Capote...

... This House on Fire great. In these in­ stances Mr. Hoffman values a novel for its ideas Styron deals with Life and Death; Capote and McCullers are not interested in abstractions and he refuses to see that ideas should be stylized. It is true that he praises Styron s style, but he does not confront its...

... and grace. Within these concepts he deals briefly with William Byrd II, Thomas Jefferson, John Pendleton Kennedy, William Gilmore Simms, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, and William Styron. While his remarks on these figures are at most illuminating flashes of light, still they are true flashes, and we...

... the current uses of the talents of Walker Percy and William Styron. Sullivan writes with evangelical force and articulate grace, and there are to be found here a persuasive expression of the sacramental na­ ture of the Southern Renascence and a coronach for its passing. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL...