Europe
(avril 1997), p. 133-144.
Anne Foata
Gail Godwin
Abstract.
Gail Godwin, whose novels began appearing in the 1970s, is a Southern author
who, like many other Southern writers of her generation, has gone beyond the
traditional patterns of the literature of her region. The great majority of
her characters, mostly women and intellectuals or artists, appear engaged in
a quest of self that makes them challenge the Southern code of family and
manners. Her classically crafted novels privilege the aristotelian primacy
and resolution of plot, the discipline of life, the individual's
responsibility for the shaping of his or her destiny. They reject the
existentialist despair as well as the post-modernist denial of self.
anne2.foata@wanadoo.fr
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