Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Additional Titles:: Cry, the beloved country
Published:: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2004]
Copyright Date:: ©2004
Physical Description:: 120 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Bloom, Harold

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Bloom's guides

Contents:

Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- Horton Davies on inspiration -- Sheridan Baker on the book as moral geography -- Edmund Fuller on tragedy -- Martin Tucker on the novel of forgiveness -- Myron Matlaw on stylistic understatement -- Robert L. Duncan on the suffering servant -- J.M. Coetzee on simple language -- Tony Adler on Cry, the beloved country and Lost in the stars -- Carol Iannone on Paton's tragic liberalism -- Mark Hestenes on Graham Greene and Alan Paton -- Works by Alan Paton.

Summary:

Examines different aspects of Paton's novel about race relations in South Africa, with a biographical sketch of the author and critical essays on this work.

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ISBN:

0791075729
9780791075722

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-111) and index.

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