The Color Purple
The publication of The Color Purple transformed Alice Walker from an indu- bitably serious black writer whose fiction belonged to a tradition of gritty, if occasionally magical, realism into a popular novelist, with all the perquisites and drawbacks attendant on that position. Unlike either The Third Life of Grange Copland or Meridian , The Color Purple gained imme- diate and widespread public acceptance, winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for 1982-83. At the same time, however, it generated immediate and widespread critical unease over what appeared to be manifest flaws in its composition. Robert Towers, writing in the New York Review of Books, concluded that on the evidence of The Color Purple Alice Walker still has a lot to learn about plotting and structuring what is clearly 6 intended to be a realistic novel. His opinion was shared by many reviewers, who pointed out variously that in the last third of the book the narrator-protagonist Celie and her friends are propelled toward a fairytale happy ending with more velocity than credibility; that the letters from Nettie, with their disconcertingly literate depictions of life in an African village, intrude into the middle of the main action with little apparent motivation or warrant; and that the device of the letters to God is especially unrealistic inasmuch as it foregoes the concretizing details that traditionally have given the epistolatory form its peculiar verisimilitude: the secret writing-place,the cache, the ruses to enable posting letters, and especially the letters received in return.
Count your blessings?
咖啡豆也分公母
Learning it the hard way
Fighting chance
独自在家
周黎明:砧板上的事业
Stirring the pot
平安夜的菜单
Looking the other way?
维多利亚的秘密(组图)
Hard yards?
True to form
Out-of-the-box solutions?
Far cry?
Capturing the imagination
Let’s go shopping!
燃尽
Out and out?
国外常见的碳酸饮料
Nature of the beast?
Caught up in the moment?
Brick and mortar?
Kangaroo court
Pie in the sky?
Keep them on side
跟着奥巴马学写慰问信
最烦发烧了!
Make him tick?
Gilded Age levels?
Wenger’s red herrings?
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