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Article: "Rip Van Winkle" and "Shiloh": why Resisting Readers still resist.(Critical essay)
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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ABSTRACT: Leroy Moffitt, the protagonist of Bobbie Ann Mason's short story "Shiloh," is marked by the same tendencies for far-wandering, slumbering escapism and perpetual adolescence that Judith Fetterley's Resisting Reader identifies in Washington Irving's masculinist icon Rip Van Winkle. Unlike Rip, however, when Leroy is forced home from his wanderings, he is greeted not by the comforting and liberating news of his wife's demise, an absence that would allow him to continue as he has for many years been accustomed, but by the presence of his own lively and much-changed wife. Norma Jean, whose Southern and feminist "her story" of their long-distance relationship ...
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