Stephen Dobyns Connection Of Worldview And Literary Works Summary
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Stephen Dobyns: Connection of Worldviews and Literary Works
Core 180
Professor Mary Dengler
Nic Oak Enerson
10/18/2012
Nicolas Enerson
Core 180
Professor Mary Dengler
October 18, 2012
Stephen Dobyns: Connection of Worldviews and Literary Works
Stephen Dobyns has produced mass amounts of literature across all different genres, but he sees himself as a poet. Dobyns’ honors and awards include a Lamont Prize, a Melville Cain Award, a National poetry Series prize, several Pushcart Prizes, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Two of the stories in Eating Naked (a collection of his short stories) have been selected for Best American Short Stories. He has also had two novels made into movies. Ashber writes, “In much of his poetry and some works of non-genre fiction, Dobyns uses absurd vehicles to introduce more profound meditations on life, love, and art. He shies neither from the low nor from the sublime, and all in a straightforward narrative voice of reason” (Ashber). We see that “absurd vehicle” and those “profound mediations” in two stories – “Kansas” and “A Happy Vacancy.” In those stories, we also see that even though some would assume that his mother, a history professor, and his father, involved …show more content…
This self-important poet is Harriet Spense’s husband, and the story is told from Harriet Spense’s point of view. People then begin to mock Harriet; they make pig noises around her and cannot hold in their laughter when they realize she is the wife of the man who was crushed by a falling pig. Harriet’s kids also become deeply depressed and decide to drop out of college, change their last name, and move to California. Harriet soon takes a leave from teaching and starts to seriously question her life. She then moves to Ann Arbor, MI, and finds a job at a
Stephen Dobyns: Connection of Worldviews and Literary Works
Core 180
Professor Mary Dengler
Nic Oak Enerson
10/18/2012
Nicolas Enerson
Core 180
Professor Mary Dengler
October 18, 2012
Stephen Dobyns: Connection of Worldviews and Literary Works
Stephen Dobyns has produced mass amounts of literature across all different genres, but he sees himself as a poet. Dobyns’ honors and awards include a Lamont Prize, a Melville Cain Award, a National poetry Series prize, several Pushcart Prizes, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Two of the stories in Eating Naked (a collection of his short stories) have been selected for Best American Short Stories. He has also had two novels made into movies. Ashber writes, “In much of his poetry and some works of non-genre fiction, Dobyns uses absurd vehicles to introduce more profound meditations on life, love, and art. He shies neither from the low nor from the sublime, and all in a straightforward narrative voice of reason” (Ashber). We see that “absurd vehicle” and those “profound mediations” in two stories – “Kansas” and “A Happy Vacancy.” In those stories, we also see that even though some would assume that his mother, a history professor, and his father, involved …show more content…
This self-important poet is Harriet Spense’s husband, and the story is told from Harriet Spense’s point of view. People then begin to mock Harriet; they make pig noises around her and cannot hold in their laughter when they realize she is the wife of the man who was crushed by a falling pig. Harriet’s kids also become deeply depressed and decide to drop out of college, change their last name, and move to California. Harriet soon takes a leave from teaching and starts to seriously question her life. She then moves to Ann Arbor, MI, and finds a job at a