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Caroline Ferguson Gordon (October 6, 1895 – April 11, 1981) was an American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932 and an O. Henry Award in 1934. Biography. Gordon was born and raised in Todd County, Kentucky at her family's plantation home, "Woodstock".
- Merits and Demerits in The Malefactors
- Portraits in The Attic
- Tragedy and Reversal
Although The Malefactors is more than the “spiritual hangover of the Lost Generation” (as Time magazine called it), the novel cannot entirely dodge one critic’s charge that it is “tedious.” First, the past exerts a persistent influence on the action. As Gordon explained to a friend, the stories of three dead men (the poet Horne Watts, as well as th...
Cynthia appears in Tom’s office “in a white dress,” bearing a manila folder filled with poetry. Cognizant of the gulf that separates him from his wife, Tom confesses to Cynthia, “I haven’t been able to write anything for a long time.” She preys upon this declaration of poetic impotence, indicating how eager she is to have him admire her poems and t...
There is something in the scene of Greek tragedy, of the “reversal” Aristotle describes in his Poetics. In How to Read a Novel, Gordon explains that such a reversal is caused “by an incident: something which, happening suddenly, crystalizes the action and hurries it toward Resolution.” Although “there is nothing illogical about it” (and there is no...
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Gordon, Caroline nell'Enciclopedia Treccani - Treccani - Treccani. Scrittrice statunitense (Todd County, Kentucky, 1895 - Princeton, New Jersey, 1981); i suoi romanzi sono per lo più ambientati nel Sud durante o dopo la guerra civile; in quella cultura in di sfacimento e nella corruzione delle grandi metropoli del Nord, la G. simboleggia la ...
Cluny media has recently republished some of her works, giving Gordon some due notice. For all who are themselves concerned with the conduct of life, Caroline Gordon's novels, short stories, and criticism offer a clear reflection of reality.
Gordon, Caroline (1895–1981) American novelist, short-story writer, critic, and major figure in the Southern Renaissance, whose work described the conflict between industrialism and agrarianism, the tension between the pre- Civil War and post- Civil War South, and humankind's struggle to impose order on an unstable world.
Caroline Gordon was born into the Kentucky line of the extensive Meriwether family in 1895. Exploration of the family's past and its evolution is a major theme of her fiction. She grew up at Merry Mont in Todd County, near Clarksville. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethany College in 1916.
