Talk:Carson McCullers

Re: requests for a complete overhaul

A number of people have made requests, quite justified, I would say, for a complete overhaul of this page. I believe whoever undertakes that project would do well to make use of the recent biography Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn (published February 2024). I'm no scholar, and I haven't even read the entirety of Dearborn's biography, but I am confident I could make substantial improvements upon the current state of this wikipedia page, simply having read a good deal of Dearborn's book. However, I wouldn't quite know where to start, since there is so much information in this biography that I believe would be helpful to include here. There are corrections to some factual matters already raised elsewhere on this talk page, several segments of this page that could be expanded, and many significant details about as-of-yet-unmentioned aspects in every stage of McCullers's life that could be added, just using this one biography. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.2.72.74 (talk) 00:01, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

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Please don't use personal websites as sources. (At any rate, Carson McCullers' bisexuality was already verified by the Georgia encyclopedia link.) Devil Doll 03:27, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Regarding "The novel itself was interpreted as an anti-fascist book" = does anyone have a citation for this.DianaW 03:00, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Is this of interest? There is a biography of Carson McCullers entitled The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers by Virginia Spencer Carr. Doubleday 1975. ISBN 0-385-04028-8. Duckert (talk) 02:16, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I moved the link for "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" from the reference to the short story collection to just the novella, as the current wikipage deals only with the title story. SarahTheEntwife (talk) 12:53, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

And now I moved the link back because it turns out Ballad was never published as a separate work as far as I can tell, so it seems more appropriate to change its wikipage to reference the whole collection. The page is badly in need of a complete overhaul anyway. Whoops! SarahTheEntwife (talk) 13:13, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Rewrite 0112

These edits are largely copy-edit rewriting with very little change (at least intent to change) content; pls meet me in Talk if you have any concern(s).--Jbeans (talk) 15:10, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

rheumatic fever

One cannot contract rheumatic fever as this article states. Rheumatic fever is not contagious. People who have rheumatic fever have initially contracted the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes that is contagious and causes infection (often manifesting as a sore throat or "strep throat")which THEN may or may not lead to rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever is considered a sequelae of an infection of S. pyogenes and not all who are infected get rheumatic fever. It really should be restated that she contracted a streptococcal infection which lead in her case to rheumatic fever. Contracting rheumatic fever itself, is not medically possible.

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This article contains far too little information on a very important American author. Perhaps (some)one can solicit contribution from people who study her work(?)

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Rewrite very much needed

This article is sorely in need of an overhaul. It seems to have been written by people who have never read either any of her works or any works about her. To highlight: To say that The Member of the Wedding is "captures a young girl's feelings at her brother's wedding" is like saying Hamlet captures the feelings of young Danish prince with a crush on a crazy girl. The article is filled with fake intellectual terms: "penned" (she actually used a typewriter but "penned" somehow sounds much more annoyiing), "oeuvre" (she didn't even speak French, but I guess we do), "indicative of her Southern roots" (whatever that means), her characters have "universal scope" (unlike the characters of Aeschylus, for example). Ballad of a Sad Café was started at Yaddo but mostly written in her parents' house in Columbus, Georgia. "Many know her works largely by their film adaptations." I suppose you could quibble with that on a factual basis, but why bother? It is trivial on its own account. The "Criticism" section is vapid (and largely unsourced). Etc., etc., &c. The entire article comes off as something by a student trying to stretch a paper to its required page length without reading the assignment. AnthroMimus (talk) 18:51, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Also, the author of this article has credited Richard Wright’s review to “Wright, James”. Tried to correct it, but don’t know how to change text in a template. Guess I should read the tutorial. Insafiresmemory (talk) 23:40, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Richard Wright quote not in linked article

Hi there, Teaching Lonely Hunter this semester. Was happy to see the Richard Wright quote, but, in following the linked article, I couldn't find it therein. It's a review written by James Wright on the poet Richard Hugo. Edjbarger (talk) 19:59, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27774587 Jstor for reference Edjbarger (talk) 19:59, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

This NYT article, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/white-writer quotes it as from “'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.' Richard Wright, in his review in The New Republic" Edjbarger (talk) 20:02, 18 January 2023 (UTC)