A Swallow Press Book
By Alexander Blackburn
Foreword by Charles L. Adams
“This is an insightful well written study of an American writer whose vision and depth are yet to be fully appreciated. A Sunrise Brighter Still should help to elevate the works of Frank Waters to the level they so richly deserve.”
Jack Kean, Colorado Libraries
“Blackburn’s book succeeds and presciently proclaims Waters’ genius...It is an altogether exceptional book deserving the widest audience.”
Robert W. Smith, The Bloomsbury Review
“Readers who collect Waters’ books must add this brilliant, critical study to their collection.”
Books of the Southwest
Novelist and critic Alexander Blackburn credits Waters’s novels such as The Man Who Killed the Deer, Pike’s Peak, People of the Valley, and The Woman at Otowi Crossing with creating a worldview that transcends modern materialism and rationalism. Central to Waters’s vision, he suggests, is the individual in whom are concentrated the creative powers of the universe. Having attained higher consciousness, the transformed individual then exemplifies the possibilities of which our minds, operating in society, are capable. Thus Waters’s vision of our common humanity in the process of creative enlargement engenders a feeling of hope and sanctuary in the modern age. Blackburn finds parallels not only in Eastern mysticism and ancient Mesoamerican wisdom, but also in modern depth psychology, neuroscience, and post-Einsteinian physics.
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Release date: October 1991
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Short Story Theories
Edited by Charles E. May
Although the short story has often been called America’s unique contribution to the world’s literature, relatively few critics have taken the form seriously. May’s collection of essays by popular commentators, academic critics, and short story writers attempts to assess the reasons for this neglect and provides significant theoretical directions for a reevaluation of the form.The essays range from discussions by Poe to comments by John Cheever.
The Tension of Paradox
José Donoso’s the Obscene Bird of Night As Spiritual Exercises
By Pamela May Finnegan
Pamela Finnegan provides a detailed criticism of a major novel written by one of Chile’s leading literary figures. She analyzes the symbolism and the use of language in The Obscene Bird of Night, showing that the novel’s world becomes an icon characterized by entropy, parody, and materiality.
Literary Criticism, Latin America · Latin American Studies · Chile
Frank Waters
Man and Mystic
Edited by Vine Deloria Jr.
“In addition to his accomplishments as a talented novelist, a thorough historian, and an excellent essayist, Frank Waters is that rare breed of man who has merged heart and mind early in his life and moved forward to confront ultimate questions. This dilemma of faith and heritage, religion and identity, and commitment and comfort has never been resolved intellectually.
