Garrison KeillorGarrison Keillor
a Critical Companion
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Current format, eBook, 2000, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsCombining a career in live radio performances and equally lively short story writing for the New Yorker, Garrison Keillor has continually charmed fans and readers with his homespun wit and warmth. While acknowledging his career highlights, this full-length critical study supports Keillor's own view of himself as writer rather than performer by examining his literary accomplishments and giving serious analysis of his fictional works. In order to understand his tremendous popular appeal, Songer situates Keillor within the rich literary heritage associated with American humorists such as Mark Twain, James Thurber, and Will Rogers. This volume treats each collection of stories as a cohesive literary entity, from the early works Happy to be Here and Lake Wobegon Days, whose familiar characters concerned themselves with social pressures and teenage angst, to The Book of Guys, which wryly examines the pitfalls of the modern male experience. In analyzing Keillor's most recent work, the novel Wobegon Boy, Songer expertly explores Keillor's humorous handling of real life lessons to be learned from the small town legacy.
In the Greenwood series that includes companions to Rudolfo Anaya, Maya Angelou, Jamaica Kincaid, Louise Erdrich and Leon Uris, comes this one to Keillor. Biography and literary heritage precede analyses of Happy to Be Here, Lake Wobegone Days, Leaving Home, We Are Still Married, WLT: A Radio Romance, The Book of Guys, and Wobegon Boy . Each analysis is divided into plot development, character development, thematic issues, and interpretation of the work from a particular approach (new criticism, reader-response, etc.). An extensive bibliography in included. Songer teaches European and African literatures as well as ESL at East Tennessee State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Studies the influences and literary accomplishments of one of America'smost beloved storytellers, Garrison Keillor.
In the Greenwood series that includes companions to Rudolfo Anaya, Maya Angelou, Jamaica Kincaid, Louise Erdrich and Leon Uris, comes this one to Keillor. Biography and literary heritage precede analyses of Happy to Be Here, Lake Wobegone Days, Leaving Home, We Are Still Married, WLT: A Radio Romance, The Book of Guys, and Wobegon Boy . Each analysis is divided into plot development, character development, thematic issues, and interpretation of the work from a particular approach (new criticism, reader-response, etc.). An extensive bibliography in included. Songer teaches European and African literatures as well as ESL at East Tennessee State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Studies the influences and literary accomplishments of one of America'smost beloved storytellers, Garrison Keillor.
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