Abstract

Anne Tyler has won the Pulitzer Prize (Breathing Lessons, 1988), the Kafka Prize (Morgan’s Passing, 1980), the National Book Critics Award (The Accidental Tourist, 1985), and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (A Spool of Blue Thread) and while the subject of scholarship and dissertations, analysis of her work has been infrequent since the 1990s. This panel welcomes papers on any of her twenty-five novels that discuss Tyler's contribution as a modernist or postmodernist observer of the American family.

Description Highly regarded as one of our greatest living authors Anne Tyler's career spans from 1964's If Morning Ever Comes to this years Three Days in June she has been compared authors as varied as Welty to Austen and is often viewed as a contemporary novelist of manners. This panel seeks to analyze her contribution as a modernist or postmodernist observer of the contemporary American families. The scope of this panel is purposely wide to allow for a varied discussion about her career. https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19388