This is the first book-length critical study of E.B. White, the American essayist and author ofStuart Little, Charlotte's Web,The Trumpet of the Swan. G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and the writing life, offering detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White's distinctiveness as an essayist. G. Douglas Atkins is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. INDICE: Coming into White Country. E.B. White and the Writing Life: Affirming Life's Newness and Joy. Of Nature, Maine, and Meaning: Or, "the Pageantry of Peas" and the Poetics of Adversity. Strange Bedfellows and Deconstruction of Oppositions: The "Recording Secretary" Speaks His Mind on Politics. Looking for E.B. White. Reading "Once More to the Lake".
- ISBN: 978-0-230-34066-4
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés