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- catalog abstract "No one who has read Pat Conroy's novels of family wounds and healing can fail to be moved by their emotional appeal. But Conroy is also a major contemporary American novelist who follows in the tradition of Southern fiction established by William Faulkner and Thomas Wolfe. This companion is the first book-length study of his work. It explores the recurring motifs in his fiction and his special writing talents as a prose stylist of uncommon distinction. A separate chapter. for The Boo and The Water Is Wide and each novel - The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, and his most recent, Beach Music - provides a detailed analysis of the books and the common threads that unite all the novels. A biographical chapter draws connections between Conroy's life and the autobiographical nature of his fiction. A chapter on genre traces Conroy's roots in Southern fiction and shows how all the novels fall into the rite-of-passage. genre. Each novel is analyzed for plot structure, characterization, thematic elements, and Conroy's increasingly elaborate style and development as a master of the art of the novel. In addition, Burns defines and applies a variety of alternative approaches to the novels to widen the reader's perspective. A complete bibliography of Conroy's fiction as well as selected reviews and criticism complete the work. Because of Pat Conroy's popularity among adults and teenagers, this first critical work of a major contemporary American writer is a necessary purchase for public and secondary school libraries.".
- catalog contributor b9615383.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-189) and index.".
- catalog description "No one who has read Pat Conroy's novels of family wounds and healing can fail to be moved by their emotional appeal. But Conroy is also a major contemporary American novelist who follows in the tradition of Southern fiction established by William Faulkner and Thomas Wolfe. This companion is the first book-length study of his work. It explores the recurring motifs in his fiction and his special writing talents as a prose stylist of uncommon distinction. A separate chapter.".
- catalog description "Series Foreword / Kathleen Gregory Klein -- 1. The Life of Pat Conroy -- 2. Genres -- 3. The Boo (1970) and The Water Is Wide (1972) -- 4. The Great Santini (1976) -- 5. The Lords of Discipline (1980) -- 6. The Prince of Tides (1986) -- 7. Beach Music (1995).".
- catalog description "for The Boo and The Water Is Wide and each novel - The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, and his most recent, Beach Music - provides a detailed analysis of the books and the common threads that unite all the novels. A biographical chapter draws connections between Conroy's life and the autobiographical nature of his fiction. A chapter on genre traces Conroy's roots in Southern fiction and shows how all the novels fall into the rite-of-passage.".
- catalog description "genre. Each novel is analyzed for plot structure, characterization, thematic elements, and Conroy's increasingly elaborate style and development as a master of the art of the novel. In addition, Burns defines and applies a variety of alternative approaches to the novels to widen the reader's perspective. A complete bibliography of Conroy's fiction as well as selected reviews and criticism complete the work. Because of Pat Conroy's popularity among adults and teenagers,".
- catalog description "this first critical work of a major contemporary American writer is a necessary purchase for public and secondary school libraries.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 195 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Pat Conroy.".
- catalog identifier "0313294194 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Pat Conroy.".
- catalog isPartOf "Critical companions to popular contemporary writers, 1074 -4193".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Westport, CT : Greenwood Press,".
- catalog relation "Pat Conroy.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Conroy, Pat Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PS3553.O5198 Z59 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Series Foreword / Kathleen Gregory Klein -- 1. The Life of Pat Conroy -- 2. Genres -- 3. The Boo (1970) and The Water Is Wide (1972) -- 4. The Great Santini (1976) -- 5. The Lords of Discipline (1980) -- 6. The Prince of Tides (1986) -- 7. Beach Music (1995).".
- catalog title "Pat Conroy : a critical companion / Landon C. Burns.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".