TITLE

On devotion to the `communal order': Wendell Berry's record of fidelity, interdependence, and love

AUTHOR(S)

Whited, Stephen

PUB. DATE

September 1994

SOURCE

Studies in the Literary Imagination;Fall94, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p9

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Literary Criticism

ABSTRACT

Analyzes Wendell Berry's prose fiction, narrative poetry and other works about farm life as a record of the existence of human values. Complication of defining values; Critics of Berry's essays and other work; Differences between traditions of the past and present values; Issue of community; Expression of lineage of common families in the practical resources for survival.

ACCESSION #

9411102473

 

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