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Death in the Woods, Sherwood Anderson - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Chamberlain, John. “A Story Teller Returns.” The Saturday Review of Literature, 9, No. 41 (April 1933): 561.

Criticizes Anderson's writing for lack of unified perspective and inconsistent quality.

Colquitt, Clare. “The Reader as Voyeur: Complicitous Transformations in ‘Death in the Woods.’” Modern Fiction Studies 32, No. 2 (1986): 175–90.

Explores the male-female polarity in the story.

Kennedy, Thomas E. “Fiction as its own Subject: An Essay and Two Examples. Anderson's ‘Death in the Woods’ and Weaver's ‘The Parts of Speech.’ The Kenyon Review 9, No. 3 (1987): 59–70.

Discusses works by Anderson and Weaver as examples of metafiction, or self-reflexive fiction, in which literary conventions are deliberately manipulated and artistic techniques are self-consciously used.

Martin, Robert A. “Primitivism in Stories by Willa...

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