Heartland of the Imagination

Jeffrey J. Folks has taught literature in Europe, America, and Japan, most recently as professor of letters in the graduate school of Doshisha University. His articles on American literature and culture have appeared in Modern Age, Southern Literary Journal, and Papers on Language and Literature, among other journals.

• Table of ContentsPreface      1. Poe and the Cogito      2. Poe and Lindsay, Literary Outcasts      3. Vachel Lindsay’s Covenant with America      4. Agee and Dostoevsky: Two Writers Possessed      5. Flannery O’Connor’s Conservatism: A Reading of The Violent Bear It Away      6. Naipaul’s Turn in the American South      7. The Fiction of Kent Haruf      Epilogue: The Dialect of the Tribe      Works Cited      Index