In this Book
- World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
A leading figure in modern southern literature, described by Newsweek as "one of the best American storytellers," Peter Taylor secured a national following through his long relationship with the New Yorker and his widely read volumes from the 1980s, The Old Forest and Other Stories and A Summons to Memphis. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's portrayals of the battles of strong-willed fathers and mothers with their equally strong-willed sons are at the center of his achievement in fiction.
David Robinson presents Taylor as a writer deeply concerned with the interworkings of family relationships, and emphasizes his role as chronicler of the shifts in southern culture in this century. World of Relations provides an important critical assessment of the work of one of the South's greatest writers, and includes the first extensive critical discussion of Taylor's last two works, The Oracle of Stoneleigh Court (1993) and In the Tennessee Country (1994).
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- Part 1. Family Relations
- 1. Fathers and Sons
- pp. 11-38
- 2. Mothers and Sons
- pp. 39-60
- 3. Fables of Maturity
- pp. 61-86
- 4. Men and Women
- pp. 87-120
- Part 2. Family and Culture
- 5. Losing Place
- pp. 123-146
- 6. The Racial Divide
- pp. 147-166
- 7. Dramas of Southern Identity
- pp. 167-192
- Works Cited
- pp. 203-206