Death in the Woods | The Reader as Voyeur: Complicitous Transformations in "Death in the Woods"
In the following essay, Colquitt examines Anderson’s belief that art is a means for a man to find personal salvation whereas women find their destiny through childbirth.
Like most writers Sherwood Anderson was vitally concerned with the workings of the imagination and the creation of art. For Anderson, these concerns were also inextricably linked to questions of personal salvation. In letters to his son John, himself a painter, Anderson asserted that ‘‘The object of art . . . is to save yourself’’: ‘‘Self is the grand disease. It is what we are all trying to lose’’ (Letters). Given Anderson’s faith in the redemptive...
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