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Article: An unreliable modern "Mariner": rewriting Coleridge in Harold Brodkey's "The State of Grace." (Brodkey's refashioning of Samuel Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' into a short story)
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- Studies in Short Fiction
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- January 1, 1994
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Harold Brodkey is not the first modern American to refashion Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" into a short story. Sherwood Anderson has that distinction. But Brodkey's "The State of Grace," the opening tale in his collection First Love and Other Sorrows, is a brilliant remaking of the Coleridgean Mariner's narrative and, as such, it is fully worthy to stand beside Anderson's "A Man of Ideas" (in which "Mariner" joins "Kubla Khan") and "Respectability" (where "Mariner" combines with "Christabel" [see Bidney 221-35]). Indeed, Brodkey's reimagining of Coleridge's "Mariner" strikingly recalls Anderson's achievement in three ways: the narrator of "The State of ...
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