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• W2593960022 abstract "138 Western American Literature With Theodore Holmes, I tend to agree that Miss Porter’s novel ironically has met much popular approval in part because it fails to meet the expecta­ tions of allegory, a form basically alien to the modem American intellect. Until— if ever— the gaps are closed in Miss Porter’s biography, however, Hendrick’s study will remain extremely useful for having drawn together the better criticism and for having added some extra dimensions to the insights into the works of a gifted literary craftsman. E d w in W. G a sto n , Jr., Stephen F. Austin State College Wright Morris. By David Madden. (New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1964. 191 pp., $3.50.) Wright Morris, now the author of sixteen books, occupies a peculiar territory in the American literary landscape. He has won three Guggenheim grants and the National Book Award (in 1957), for The Field of Vision; his intelligence, subtle craft, and complex vision have earned high praise from Thomas Mann, Mark Schorer, Saul Bellow, Wayne Booth and a host of other critics and novelists. Clearly, “official” recognition has not been lacking. Yet Morris is not a well-known writer. Many of his books are out of print, and few of them sold well. The bitch-goddess, at least in a public sense, has eluded Morris. Acclaimed by critics, ignored by the public, Morris’ career has served for fodder in many arguments that hold that America, and not the novel, is dead. Granville Hicks has said that Morris and other serious novelists are the victims of an “Age of Inattention”; Harvey Swados has argued that neglect of Morris damns not only the public, but the critical establishment and the publishing business as well. David Madden, the author of the first full-length critical study of Morris, does not concern himself with the sociology of Morris’ Janus-faced reputation. He intends, rather, to explore those elements in the work itself that “tend to frustrate even the most literate reader.” By quoting extensively from the early novels (now out of print), by tracing the transformations of Morris’ raw material through the various books, and by exploring the tones of Morris’ sometimes baffling fictional voice, Madden hopes to make the whole body of work more accessible to the general reader. The approach is a good one, for Morris is one of the most demanding novelists now writing. His ironic mode produces a deceptively simple surface; he lays “sure hands on the daily as Eudora Welty has said. But his novels rest on a scaffolding of perceptions and ideas remarkable for their complexity. It is perhaps hard to see this (news­ paper reviewers offer melancholy proof) when Morris adopts a fictional stance roughly similar to the manner of some of his characters: an old lady expresses hilarity by hiding her mouth with her hand and tapping her foot on the floor. Reviews 139 Since Morris uses no shrill poster colors to blazon the reader’s path, since his irony often seems to undercut itself, Madden asks basic questions: is Morris’ attitude “one of satire, irony, naradox, comedy, burlesque, or tragedy?” Is he nihilistic? Is he nostalgic for, or nauseated by, the Great Plains? While Madden does not answer these questions entirely, his discussions always re­ flect close, intelligent reading. Madden’s book, then, is genuinely helpful criticism. It is not, of course, the last word on Morris. At the risk of being unfair to the book a-s it stands— Madden was obviously kept from exploring some aspects of Morris’ work by space limitations and by his desire to introduce, rather than to evaluate, Morris — I want to voice some objections. For readers of this journal, Madden’s exploration of the meaning of the Great Plains in Morris’ work will be of interest. But I suspect that most will find the discussion too cursory and truncated. Madden quotes Webb and Turner on the Great Plains as frontier but does not sharpen his observations to a point. Morris’ conception of the Great Plains experience is far more complex than Madden indicates. In addition, I think that Madden forces his argument in granting Cause for Wonder such high rank in..." @default.
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