Critical essays on Kay Boyle / edited by Marilyn Elkins.

Other author Elkins, Marilyn Roberson.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : G.K. Hall & Co. ; London : Prentice Hall, ©1997.
Descriptionxv, 316 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Kay Boyle
SeriesCritical essays on American literature
Critical essays on American literature. ^A118490
Contents Reviews : The somnambulists / William Carlos Williams -- Too good to be smart / Gerald Sykes -- Kay Boyle : example to the young / Katherine Anne Porter -- Inescapable end / Gladys Graham -- Kay Boyle's story of a moral crisis / Louis Kronenberger -- Miss Boyle's irony / Edith H. Walton -- The international vs. the local outlook / Mary M. Colum -- An unhabitual way / Babette Deutsch -- Three unusual stories by Kay Boyle / Peter Monro Jack -- Review of Primer for combat / Raoul de Roussy de Sales -- Kay Boyle's coincidence and melodrama ; The mature craft of Kay Boyle / Struthers Burt --Avalance in the Haute-Savoie / Walter Havighurst -- In Germany the ruins still smolder / Harry T. Moore -- Hope out of France / Paul Engle -- The light and the dark / Granville Hicks -- Aristocrat of the short story / Maxwell Geismar -- Those Paris years / Malcolm Cowley -- The telling of the story / Phillip Corwin -- Moving and maturing / Vance Bourjaily -- 60 years of passion and compassion / Hugh Ford -- Old novel offers insights into Nazism / Steve Kettmann --
Contents Criticism : Kay Boyle / Richard C. Carpenter -- The revolution of the word / Sandra Whipple Spanier -- My next bride : Kay Boyle's text of the female artist / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- Tails you lose : Kay Boyle's war fiction / Edward M. Uehling -- Call forth a good day : the nonfiction of Kay Boyle / Elizabeth S. Bell -- Introduction to the 1989 reprint of Death of a man / Burton Hatlen -- Revolution, the woman, and the word : Kay Boyle / Suzanne Clark -- Entering the world of politics / Marilyn Elkins -- Abortion, identity formation, and the expatriate woman writer : H.D. and Kay Boyle in the twenties / Donna Hollenberg -- Kay Boyle, always a poet / Linda Wagner-Martin -- Female roles and national identity in Kay Boyle's Plagues by the nightingale and Edith Wharton's Madame de Treymes / Dianne Chambers -- Advancing literary women : Edith Wharton, Kay Boyle, and My next bride / Abby H.P. Werlock -- Absence and the figure of desire in Kay Boyle's Monday night / Burton Hatlen -- Life-giving : Kay Boyle's innovations in autobiography in Being geniuses together / Christine H. Hait.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97008361
ISBN0783800126 (alk. paper)