It Starts with Trouble : : William Goyen and the Life of Writing / / Clark Davis.

William Goyen was a writer of startling originality and deep artistic commitment whose work attracted an international audience and the praise of such luminaries as Northrop Frye, Truman Capote, Gaston Bachelard, and Joyce Carol Oates. His subject was the land and language of his native East Texas;...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Prologue The Drowning
  • Part I: The House in the Bitterweeds
  • 1. Trinity: 1915–1922
  • 2. Merrill Street: 1923–1931
  • 3. Rice Institute: 1932–1941
  • Part II: Song of Leaving
  • 4. Ulysses: 1942–1945
  • 5. El Prado: 1945–1948
  • 6. Christopher Icarus: 1948–1950
  • 7. The House of Breath: 1950
  • 8. Marvello: 1950–1953
  • 9. A Farther Country: 1954–1956
  • 10. Blood Kindred: 1957–1962
  • Part III: The Rider at the Door
  • 11. “A New Life”: 1962–1964
  • 12. A Living Jesus: 1966–1973
  • 13. The Restorer: 1974
  • 14. Precious Door: 1975–1981
  • 15. The Nurseryman: 1976–1982
  • 16. Arcadio: 1983
  • 17. The Wound and the Bow: 1982–1983
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index