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"Genius, Scientist, Saint": Carver as Hagiography
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 38, 2010
- pp. 153-180
- 10.1353/chl.2010.a380768
- Article
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This essay maps the ways in which Marilyn Nelson's text invokes hagiographic traditions and uses verse to illuminate the complexities, pleasures, and horrors of Carver's life. The essay also examines the text's photographs as icons and relics, gender liminality, and the sublimation of sexuality.