Anne Tyler

Tyler, Anne - 1941–, American novelist, b. Minneapolis. Often set in the American South and frequently in and around Baltimore, Md., her fiction portrays vivid characters involved in ordinary human life, particularly family relationships, with wit and perception. Among her novels are A Slipping down Life (1970), Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985) Read More...

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Anne Tyler: A Critical Companion
by Paul Bail. 215 pgs.

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Anne Tyler's novels strike a deep chord of responsiveness in her readers because her novels bring to life contemporary characters to whom we can instantly relate and in whose experiences we can see mirrored our own. Tyler's novels deal with the human experience: relationships between marital partners, between parents and children...between siblings; the meaning of love; the nature of identity; impermanence and change; and loss and continuity. In Anne Tyler novels, life is a complexity whose texture is built out of multiple layers. In this insightful study, Paul Bail shows us how Tyler constructs the complex reality of life through character, narrative point of view, theme, and literary devices. With the exception of Tyler's earliest two novels, which she prefers to forget, a chapter is devoted to each of the other novels she has written. Among the twelve are her unforgettable novels of family relationships and love...loss and renewal, such as Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons. Also included is an analysis of Tyler's most recent novel, A Patchwork Planet.

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Advisory Board

Advisory Board

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Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

1: The Life of Anne Tyler

2: Literary Influences on Anne Tyler

3: A Slipping-Down Life (1970)

4: The Clock Winder (1972)

5: Celestial Navigation (1974)

6: Searching for Caleb (1976)

7: Earthly Possessions (1977)

8: Morgan’s Passing (1980)

9: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982)

10: The Accidental Tourist (1985)

11: Breathing Lessons (1988)

12: Saint Maybe (1991)

13: Ladder of Years (1995)

14: A Patchwork Planet (1998)

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Moving on: The Heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin
by Susan S. Kissel. 232 pgs.

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Focusing on the works of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin as representative of changes taking place today, Kissel shows how white southern women are "moving on" in their fiction, with heroines not only continuing to renounce southern patriarchal tradition but moving beyond to establish independent lives and caring communities in American society. They are beginning to close the gap that has existed between themselves and black southern women writers, whose protagonists have long shown that the strength and independence of female maturity must be synonymous with complete character development. A background synthesis freshly discussing the work of Chopin, McCullers, O'Connor, Mitchell, and Welty leads to extended treatment of the novels of Shirley Ann Grau, whose protagonists, "keepers of the house", remain their fathers' daughters; of Anne Tyler, whose characters are "fatherless" and "homeless at home"; and Gail Godwin, whose daughter-heroines learn the necessity of autonomy. Further development,is shown in a subsequent generation of writers, discussed as paralleling either Grau ("haunted by the past"), Tyler ("making adult choices") or Godwin ("creating new communities") and pointing to a continuing progression.

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Moving On: The Heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin

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Preface and Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

2: Shirley Ann Grau's Keepers of the House

3: Anne Tyler's "Homeless at Home"

4: Gail Godwin's Family Reconfigurations

5: Other Contemporary Authors and Their Fictional Worlds

6: Conclusions

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Withdrawals and Returns in a Page of Anne Tyler (Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, pp. 270-272): Embers Glowing under the Ashes, in The Mississippi Quarterly
by Jaqueline Pelorson. 25 pgs.

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The Foreigners in Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe, in Critique
by Judith Caesar. 10 pgs.

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Back When We Were Grownups, in The Atlantic Monthly
by Katharine Whittemore. 6 pgs.

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The Critical Response to Eudora Welty's Fiction ("The Fine, Full World of Welty" by Anne Tyler begins on p. 275 and "A Visit with Eudora Welty" by Anne Tyler begins on p. 288)
by Laurie Champion. 392 pgs.

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Eudora Welty holds a prominent position among Southern writers, receiving critical attention in publications that scan a wide range of interests. Journals that specialize in American literature, journals that publish general essays, and journals that focus on Southern literature frequently include articles about Welty's works. This book traces the critical response to Welty's fiction by providing representative selections of criticism from the 1940s to the present day.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

Contents

Series Foreword

Introduction

Notes

A Curtain of Green and Other Stories 1941

Full-Length Portrait

The Gothic South

Life for Phoenix

Why Sister Lives at the P.O

Notes

The Robber Bridegroom 1942

The Violent Country

American Fairy Tale

The Uses of Enchantment in Frontier Humor and The Robber Bridegroom

Notes

Eudora Welty's Dance with Darkness: The Robber Bridegroom

The Wide Net and Other Stories 1943

Fiction in Review

Consolations of Poetry

Persephone in Eudora Welty's "Livvie"

Delta Wedding 1946

Eudora Welty

Fiction in Review

Look Away, Look Away, Look Away

The Problem of Time in Welty's Delta Wedding

Notes

The Golden Apples 1949

Main Street in Dixie

Notes by the Way

Five: Southerners'

The Thematic Unity of Welty's The Golden Apples

The Ponder Heart 1954

Bossy Edna Earle Had a Word for Everything

Witless on the Delta

Edna Earle Ponder's Good Country People

Ponder Heart Now out in Dramatic Version

Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart Gets Rave Notices at Broadway

The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories 1955

The Bride of the Innisfallen

Miss Welty Magnificent in Newest Short Pieces

The Sharp Edge of Experiment": The Poetics of "No Place for You, My Love

Bibliographic Note

General Criticism 1955-1969

Name and Symbol in the Prose of Eudora Welty

Losing Battles 1970

Eudora Welty Talks about Her New Book, Losing Battles

Eudora Welty's Losing Battles Is Magnificent Feast

Everything Brought out in the Open: Eudora Welty's Losing Battles

Miss Welty's Wide World

Speech and Silence in Losing Battles

The Optimist's Daughter 1972

The Continuity of Love

The Past Reexamined: The Optimist's Daughter

The Freed Hands: The Power of Images in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter

Notes

Works Cited

General Criticism 1972-1979

Eudora Welty and the Use of Place in Southern Fiction

Eudora Welty: The Three Moments

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 1980

The Fine, Full World of Welty

Songs of the South

Journeys out of Separateness

A Visit with Eudora Welty

The Loving Vision

General Criticism 1980-1993

Family in Eudora Welty's Fiction

On Welty's Use of Allusion: Expectations and Their Revision in "The Wide Net," The Robber Bridegroom and "At The Landing"

Notes

Works Cited

Diverting Swine: The Magical Relevancies of Eudora Welty's Ruby and Circe

Notes

Works Cited

Selected Other Readings

Index

About the Editor
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The Therapeutic Narrative: Fictional Relationships and the Process of Psychological Change (Chap. 5 "The Accidental Tourist: Traumatic Loss and Pathological Grief Respond to 'Accidental Therapy'")
by Barbara Almond, Richard Almond. 224 pgs.

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How do people change? Longing for personal growth and transformation is a central theme of our time. In psychotherapy we work to change the dynamics behind people's symptoms and conflicts. Writers, too, are fascinated by this theme, and have explored it frequently in their stories and characters. In this volume, Barbara and Richard Almond, both psychoanalysts, explore a variety of novels that describe internal, personal change. They discover that there are fascinating parallels between the processes that lead to change in literary characters and the mechanisms observed in psychotherapeutic change.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1 INTRODUCTION

2 Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's Foreshadowing Of Psychoanalytic Process

3 Jane Eyre: Mastering Passion and Guilt Through Mutual Influence

4 Margaret Drabble's The Needle's Eye: A Depressive Neurosis is Healed in A Spontaneous Relationship

5 The Accidental Tourist: Traumatic Loss and Pathological Grief Respond to "Accidental Therapy"

6 Silas Marner (george Eliot): Chronic Depression Resolves In a Complexly Layered Therapeutic Process

7 Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: Multiple Cures, Multiple Processes of Cure

8 Heidi (johanna Spyri): The Innocence of the Child As a Therapeutic Force

9 The Magus (john Fowles): A Literary Psychodrama

10 The House of Mirth (edith Wharton): Tragedy--The Failure of A Relationship to Transform

11 Conclusion: We Read, We Write, We Talk to Heal

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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An Anne Tyler Companion
by Robert W. Croft. 303 pgs.

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Best known as the author of The Accidental Tourist (1985), Anne Tyler has published 13 novels and almost 50 short stories. She has won numerous honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her work has attracted the attention of scholars and general readers alike. This reference book is a guide to her fascinating fictional worlds. An introductory essay overviews her life and career. The volume then presents alphabetically arranged entries for her works and characters and for the various themes that figure prominently in her writings. The entries for her novels consist mostly of commentary. But because her short stories are less accessible, those entries also include extensive plot summaries. Many of the entries include bibliographies of reviews and criticism, and the volume closes with an extensive bibliography and appendices of places and songs mentioned in her works.

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Preface

Abbreviations

Chronology of Anne Tyler's Life

Anne Tyler's Life

Anne Tyler's Themes

Works, Characters, Themes, and Motifs

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B

C

For Further Reading

D

For Further Reading

E

F

For Further Reading

G

For Further Reading

H

I

For Further Reading

J

K

L

Selected Book Reviews

M

For Further Reading

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P

Q

R

S

For Further Reading

For Further Reading

Selected Book Reviews

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Selected Book Reviews

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X, Y, Z

Primary Bibliography

Secondary Bibliography

Appendices

Appendix 1: Places in Anne Tyler's Novels

Appendix 2: Songs in Anne Tyler's Novels

Index

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Novel Events, in National Review
by Carol Iannone. 3 pgs.

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Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook ("Anne Tyler (1941- )" begins on p. 491)
by Joseph M. Flora, Robert Bain. 644 pgs.

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..."The scholarship is meticulous and the essays are lucid and perceptive..." Library Journal

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Introduction

James Agee (1909-1955)

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A. R. Ammons (1926- )

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John Barth (1930- )

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Hamilton Basso (1904-1964)

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Doris Betts (1932- )

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John Peale Bishop (1892-1944)

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James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

Erskine Caldwell (1903- )

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Truman Capote (1924-1984)

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Donald Grady Davidson (1893-1968)

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James Dickey (1923- )

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Ralph Ellison (1914- )

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William Faulkner (1897-1962)

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John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950)

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Shelby Foote (1916- )

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Ernest J. Gaines (1933- )

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Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

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Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)

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Shirley Ann Grau (1929- )

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Paul Green (1894-1981)

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Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

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Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

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Andrew Lytle (1902- )

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Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

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H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

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Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

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Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

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Walker Percy (1916- )

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

William Sydney Porter [O. Henry] (1862-1910)

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Reynolds Price (1933- )

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John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

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Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

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Elizabeth Spencer (1921- )

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Jesse Stuart (1906-1984)

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William Styron (1925- )

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Allen Tate (1899-1979)

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Peter Taylor (1917- )

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Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

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Anne Tyler (1941- )

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Robert Penn Warren (1905- )

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Eudora Welty (1909- )

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Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams (1911-1983)

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Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

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Richard Wright (1908-1960)

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Stark Young (1881-1963)

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Contributors
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Family Plots: The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture (Chap. 5 "Rules of the Game: Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb ")
by Dana Heller. 240 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction: Plotting the Family

Chapter 2: Housebreaking Freud

Chapter 3: The Third Sphere: Television's Romance with the Family

Chapter 4: The Culture of "Momism": Evan S. Connell's Mrs. Bridge

Chapter 5: Rules of the Game: Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb

Chapter 6: Father Trouble: Jane Smiley's The Age of Grief

Chapter 7 "A Possible Sharing": Ethnicizing Mother-Daughter Romance In Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

Chapter 8: Reconstructing Kin: Toni Morrison's Beloved

Chapter 9: "Family" Romance (or, How To Recognize a Queer Text When You Meet One)

Chapter 10: The Lesbian Dick: Policing the Family In Internal Affairs

Chapter 11: Home Viewing--Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Notes

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Index
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What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders (An excerpt of "Average Waves in Unprotected Waters" by Anne Tyler begins on p.165)
by Carol Donley, Sheryl Buckley. 360 pgs.

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Preface

Editors' Commentary on Narrative

Introduction to Part One

The Meaning of Normal

From Madness, Heresy and the Rumor of Angels: The Revolt against the Mental Health System

From the Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

From Rewriting the Soul

From "On Being Sane in Insane Places"

From Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Three Stories from Cases in Bioethics

Introduction to Part Two

Silent Snow, Secret Snow

The End of the Party

From Girl, Interrupted

From Equus

Two Stick Drawings

From Joe Egg

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

From of Mice and Men

Average Waves in Unprotected Waters

Lily Daw and the Three Ladies

Three Poems

From like Water for Chocolate

From Faces in the Water

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window

The Avalanche

No Name Woman, from the Woman Warrior

Three Poems

1919, from Sula

Night March

Mental Cases

From Ceremony

From Mrs Dalloway

Panic Philip Booth

King of the Bingo Game

Cash, from as I Lay Dying

Gogol's Wife

The Tell-Tale Heart

From the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer

To You My Mother Lost in Time

From My Journey into Alzheimer's Disease

From in a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey

Two Poems

A Wonderland Party

Notes on Contributors

Permissions Acknowledgments

Index

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