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Enter, Mysterious Stranger : American Cloistral Fiction
author
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Male, Roy R.
publisher
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University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin
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0806115440
print isbn13
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9780806115443
ebook isbn13
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9780806172347
language
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English
subject
American fiction--History and criticism, Outsiders in literature, Community in literature, Fiction--Technique.
publication date
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1979
lcc
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PS374.O94M3 1979eb
ddc
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813/.01
subject
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American fiction--History and criticism, Outsiders in literature, Community in literature, Fiction--Technique.
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Enter, Mysterious Stranger
American Cloistral Fiction
by Roy R. Male
University of Oklahoma Press: Norman
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Books by Roy R. Male
Hawthorne's Tragic Vision (Austin, 1957)
American Literary Masters (coeditor, New York, 1965)
Types of Short Fiction (editor, Belmont, California, 2d ed., 1970)
Enter, Mysterious Stranger (Norman, 1979)
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Male, Roy R. Enter, mysterious stranger. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. American fiction History and criticism. 2. Outsiders in literature. 3. Community in literature. 4. Fiction Technique. I. Title. PS374.094M3 813'.01 79-4736
Copyright 1979 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition.
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To Carolyn, Mary, and Frank
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Contents
Acknowledgments
page ix
Foreword
xi
Chapter 1 Cloistral Fiction
3
2 The Conventions
15
3 Knowing the Unknowable
29
4 Testing the Power
47
5 The Curiously Receptive Reader and the Mysterious Author
77
Appendix Representative Cloistral Fictions
119
Index
123
Page ix
Acknowledgments
The author of even a short book incurs many obligations. Brief portions of this one have previously appeared in Criticism and Studies in Short Fiction. I am grateful to the editors of these journals for permission to reprint. The Research Council of the University of Oklahoma provided typing of the manuscript. And I owe more than the footnotes can indicate to the aesthetic theories of Morse Peckham.
My deeper obligations are less formal. In class and out I have been encouraged and enlightened by former students like Pat Anderson, Terry Britton, Jerry Holt, David Russell, Nancy Skinner, and Karen Wells. My colleague Ronald Schleifer offered many valuable suggestions. And I was particularly fortunate to have the research assistance and friendship of Leanne Daggett.
ROY R. MALE NORMAN, OKLAHOMA
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There remains in man's sense of achievement the suspicion of its infantile roots; and since his earliest sense of reality was learned by the painful testing of inner and outer goodnesses and badnesses, man remains ready to expect from some enemy, force, or event in the outer world that which, in fact, endangers him from within: from his own split inner world. Thus he is always irrationally ready to fear invasion by vast and vague forces which are other than himself. Erik Erikson, Childhood And Society
Something has to happen in a story,... and the simplest thing ever to have happen is to say: Enter, mysterious stranger. Robert Penn Warren, 'Blackberry Winter': A Recollection"
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Foreword
This little book studies a certain kind of American fiction. No, the book doesn't study it; I do. So before I adopt the appropriately detached tone of the literary critic, let me begin on a personal note. I am an English teacher who once, years ago, thought he might become a writer. And I have been fascinated for a long time by the mystery of fiction, how it gets written, what happens when I try to teach it, by the gap between "creative writing" and the academic criticism of literature. More particularly, I have been curious about one kind of story, the story of The Mysterious Stranger. One night, over a decade ago, a version of that story happened in real life. None of us who were there will ever forget it. But I've never been able to write a story about it.
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813'.01 79-4736