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Fathers and sons: Winesburg, Ohio and the revision of modernism.(Critical Essay)

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From: Studies in American Fiction
Date: 20010922
Author:Conner, Marc C.

The American had finally denied too many fathers to survive except as the fatherless man.

--Leslie Fiedler

One of the strangest relationships in the world is that between father and son.

--Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg Ohio opens with the author's famous dedication to the memory of his mother, "whose keen observations on the life about her first awoke in me the hunger to see beneath the surface of lives." (1) It has become a commonplace of Winesburg criticism to see Anderson's work as the fulfillment of what one critic describes as "the debt ...

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