E. B. White
Subtitle: the essayist as first-class writer
By: G. Douglas Atkins
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230340664
Subjects: History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; American Authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Biography; American essays; Essayists; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "This is the first book-length critical study of E. B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, and coauthor of The Elements of Style. G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and "the writing life", offering fresh, detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White's distinctiveness as an essayist due to his capacity for story-telling and his use of literary devices"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Coming into White country; title: E. B. White and the writing life : affirming life's newness and joy; title: Of nature, Maine, and meaning : or, "The pageantry of peas" and the poetics of adversity; title: Strange bedfellows and deconstruction of oppositions : the "Recording Secretary" speaks his mind on politics; title: Postscript : looking for E.B. White; title: Appendix : reading "Once more to the lake."