Book on American Novelists includes chapter by Todd Davis

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 488 hits

Todd Davis' chapter on the writer Kurt Vonnegut has been published in The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists, edited by Timothy Parrish and published by Cambridge University Press in Cambridge, England. This book provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison. For more information about this book, visit Cambridge University Press at http://goo.gl/KPqjb online.

Davis also has an essay responding to the poetry of Robert Wrigley at Voltage Poetry, an online anthology created and edited by the poets Kim Addonizio and Michael Theune. The anthology focuses on the "turn" in a poem, when a measure of energy transforms the writing, often leading to an emotional insight. Davis' essay can be read here at http://voltagepoetry.com/2012/12/11/todd-davis-on-robert-wrigleys-horseflies/ online.