Enter, mysterious stranger
Subtitle: American cloistral fiction
By: by Roy R. Male.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; Outsiders in literature; Community in literature; Fiction -- Technique
Description: Discusses fiction in which the arrival of a "mysterious stranger" affects the community, focusing on such works as Mark Twain's Mystersious Stranger, William Faulkner's Spotted Horses, and Flannery O'Connor's The Displaced Person.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.