The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon consists of twenty-three stories grouped into four parts. Except for one story, part 1 confines itself to the early twentieth century and the south-central ...

Critical discussions of Caroline Gordon often focus on her economy of style, classic simplicity, and thematic complexity. Most of her finest stories are histories, told through a few selected and ...

Caroline Gordon was born into a world steeped in classical education and Southern tradition. Her father, James Maury Morris Gordon, a scholar of the classics, married Nancy Meriwether, one …

A modernist in style and technique, Caroline Gordon is decidedly antimodern in the themes of her writings. Among American authors, she is similar to Willa Cather in decrying the spiritual ...

Caroline Gordon was a distinguished novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and literary critic. In the field of literary criticism, she is admired for her contributions to New Criticism and to ...

Thomas H. Landess, "Caroline Gordon's Ontological Stories," in The Short Fiction of Caroline Gordon: A Critical Symposium, edited by Thomas H. Landess (copyright 1972 The University …

Caroline Gordon belongs in that group of Southern women who have been enriching our literature uniquely in this century—all so different in spirit, attitude, and method, but all with the rare ...

Caroline Gordon’s theories of fiction and her debts to the writers who influenced her were spelled out in lectures that she gave at the University of Kansas and later published as How to Read a ...

By far the most ambitious of Caroline Gordon's novels, None Shall Look Back is a story of the Civil War which at first gives promise of outdistancing its numerous competitors. Miss Gordon, …

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