The Ballad of the Sad Café McCullers, Carson | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Criticism
Allen, Walter. "Welty, McCullers, Taylor, Flannery O'Connor." In The Short Story in English, pp. 313-18. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.
Argues that McCullers's "extremely idiosyncratic view of human beings" is most successfully articulated in The Ballad of the Sad Café.
Baldanza, Frank. "Plato in Dixie." The Georgia Review 12 (Summer 1958): 151-67.
Discusses the use of Platonic parables in southern fiction, remarking that the theory of love expounded by the narrator of The Ballad of the Sad Café is reminiscent of Plato's Socratic dialogue, Phaedrus (c. 5th-4th century BC).
Dodd, Wayne D. "The Development of Theme through Symbol in the Novels of Carson McCullers." The Georgia Review XVII, No. 2 (Summer 1963): 206-13.
Argues that there is "a suggestive and developmental symbolism" in McCullers's work that "always emphasizes the discreteness of individuals...
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