Synopses & Reviews
Acknowledged as an original and important voice in American letters, Ann Beattie published her first short story at age twenty-five in 1972. Four years later, she issued her first short-story collection and first novel concurrently. This volume brings together book reviews, criticism, interviews, biographical materials, and bibliography spanning the entire corpus of Beattie's fiction to date---five short-story collections and four novels published through 1991. The editor's introduction analyzes the various critical stances, both positive and negative, informed also by her own 1992 interview with Beattie, which appears as the final selection. Newly commissioned essays supplement the reviews, articles, and earlier interviews to bring a wide range of contemporary theory to bear on the fiction. An extensive primary and secondary bibliography complete the work.
Synopsis
This volume brings together reviews and criticism, interviews, biographical materials, and bibliography spanning the oeuvre to date: Beattie's five short-story collections and four novels published from 1976 to 1991.
Synopsis
anning the oeuvre to date: Beattie's five short-story collections and four novels published from 1976 to 1991.
About the Author
JAYE BERMAN MONTRESOR is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse
Introduction
On Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie's Magic Slate or The End of the Sixties
Images of Void in Beattie's "Shifting"
Through "The Octascope": A View of Ann Beattie
Literary Waifs
Squashed Frogs, Flattened Feelings
Three Novels
Marge Piercy and Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie and the Hippoisie
The World According to Beattie
Women and Happiness
Ann Beattie: The Art of the Missing
Throwing a Spotlight on the Past
The World as Burning House: Ann Beattie and the Buddha
A Conversation with Ann Beattie
Lost in a Joyless Limbo
Photographs and Fantasies in the Stories of Ann Beattie
The Speaking Silence of Ann Beattie's Voice
Frames, Images, and the Abyss
Psychasthenic Negotiation in Ann Beattie
Little Boy Lost: Exploring Childhood's Rough New Landscape
Ann Beattie's Picturing Will: Changing Our Images of "Good" Mothers and Fathers
"Some Other Charade": Homo/Heterosexual Definition in Ann Beattie
Picturing Ann Beattie: A Dialogue
Affairs of Families: A First-Rate Writer Captures Her Generation
The Slice of Life: Paring it Thin in What Was Mine
This was in 1992, in Iowa City: Talking with Ann Beattie
Selected Bibliography
Index