Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship

Benjamin Capps has been called the Texas author whose work will be read 100 years from now, but Clayton notes that Caps has not been the frequent subject of nationally disseminated critical interpretation, perhaps because he is an anomaly—a writer of serious, literary fiction set in the West. Notable are Capps's perceptive characterizations and his use of historical background and folklore.

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Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship

Benjamin Capps has been called the Texas author whose work will be read 100 years from now, but Clayton notes that Caps has not been the frequent subject of nationally disseminated critical interpretation, perhaps because he is an anomaly—a writer of serious, literary fiction set in the West. Notable are Capps's perceptive characterizations and his use of historical background and folklore.

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Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship

Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship

by Lawrence Clayton
Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship

Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship

by Lawrence Clayton

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Benjamin Capps has been called the Texas author whose work will be read 100 years from now, but Clayton notes that Caps has not been the frequent subject of nationally disseminated critical interpretation, perhaps because he is an anomaly—a writer of serious, literary fiction set in the West. Notable are Capps's perceptive characterizations and his use of historical background and folklore.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780929398099
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Publication date: 01/01/1990
Series: Texas Writers Series , #2
Pages: 205
Product dimensions: 5.36(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

LAWRENCE CLAYTON was a professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Hardin-Simmons University. He published broadly on the life and literature of the American West.

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