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Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, Fiction, Classics, Literary

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, Fiction, Classics, Literary

Anderson, Sherwood

Hardcover

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0809595060
ISBN13: 9780809595068
Publisher: Wildside Pr
Published: Jul 1 2004
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The book is set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio (not to be confused with the actual Winesburg), which is based loosely on the author's childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio. No sooner did _Winesburg, Ohio_ make its appearance than a number of critical labels were fixed on it: the revolt against the village, the espousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of American realism. Such tags may once have had their point, but by now they seem dated and stale. The revolt against the village (about which Anderson was always ambivalent) has faded into history. The espousal of sexual freedom would soon be exceeded in boldness by other writers. And as for the effort to place _Winesburg, Ohio_ in a tradition of American realism, that now seems dubious. Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the photographing of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis. Only occasionally, and then with a very light touch, does Anderson try to fill out the social arrangements of his imaginary town -- although the fact that his stories are set in a mid-American place like Winesburg does constitute an important formative condition.

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