Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens (review)
He was a barracks filled with stubborn back-looking ghosts." Gray's book won the 1986 C. Hugh Holman Award of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. James D. Riemer's book on James Branch Cabell notes the recent resurgence of interest in Cabell's works. That critical interest, however, has manifested little concern with the fantasy aspects of Cabell's novels. Riemer attempts to correct this neglect by devoting a chapter in his book to each of Cabell's major fantasy writings: JÃ1⁄4rgen, The Cream of the Jest, Figures of Earth, The High Place, The Silver Stallion, and Something About Eve. Like any writer of fantasies, Cabell drew on medieval and mythological sources in the high fantasy tradition of William Morris; but a satirical vein permeates his fantasies which links him to many postmoderns. He is aware of the acute discrepancy between illusion and reality. This book will prove useful to teachers of modern American fiction and fantasy fiction.