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Jane Smiley Writing Styles in A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley. This Study Guide consists of approximately 22 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Thousand Acres. Print Word PDF.
Body and Visibility in A Thousand Acres The west insists on the discrete identity of objects. To name is to know; to know is to control. (Paglia, p.5) (Woman's beauty) gives the eye the comforting illusion of intellectual control over nature. (Paglia, p.17) If the male gaze is a tool to.
Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, Golden Age, the concluding volume of The Last Hundred Years trilogy. She is also the author of five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults.
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In A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transposes the King Lear story to the modern day, and in so doing at once illuminates Shakespeare's original and subtly transforms it. This astonishing novel won both of America's highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle Award.
Jane has been married three times and has two daughters and one son. Jane has authored ten works of fiction including A Thousand Acres which one the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. She has also authored many essays for magazines such as The New Yorker, Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times travel section, Vogue, Allure and others.
Jane Smiley's power as a writer lies in her ability to evoke her chosen milieu, no matter how far-flung. The Pulitzer winner is able to vary her settings -- from 14th-century Greenland to a modern-day college campus -- as well as her tone, never missing a beat.