Michał Choiński is assistant professor in the Institute of English Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His previous books include The Rhetoric of the Revival: The Language of the Great Awakening Preachers.

In this sophisticated and entertaining study, Michał Choiński shows how seven stars of southern literary fiction brilliantly exploit figurative frames—hyperbole more than any other—to underpin the unforgettable style and rhetoric of their storytelling. Michał Choiński's provocative study reorients how we think about mid-twentieth-century southern literature. Shifting our attention away from those themes, motifs, and aesthetics often associated with southern writing, Choiński encourages us to consider instead the hyperbolic mode that runs through the works produced by many of the region's most well-known authors. His deft readings and compelling argument deepen our understanding of southern writing published during this critical period.

Michał Choiński is assistant professor in the Institute of English Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His previous books include The Rhetoric of the Revival: The Language of the Great Awakening Preachers.

In this sophisticated and entertaining study, Michał Choiński shows how seven stars of southern literary fiction brilliantly exploit figurative frames—hyperbole more than any other—to underpin the unforgettable style and rhetoric of their storytelling. Michał Choiński's provocative study reorients how we think about mid-twentieth-century southern literature. Shifting our attention away from those themes, motifs, and aesthetics often associated with southern writing, Choiński encourages us to consider instead the hyperbolic mode that runs through the works produced by many of the region's most well-known authors. His deft readings and compelling argument deepen our understanding of southern writing published during this critical period.

Michał Choiński is assistant professor in the Institute of English Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His previous books include The Rhetoric of the Revival: The Language of the Great Awakening Preachers.

In this sophisticated and entertaining study, Michał Choiński shows how seven stars of southern literary fiction brilliantly exploit figurative frames—hyperbole more than any other—to underpin the unforgettable style and rhetoric of their storytelling. Michał Choiński's provocative study reorients how we think about mid-twentieth-century southern literature. Shifting our attention away from those themes, motifs, and aesthetics often associated with southern writing, Choiński encourages us to consider instead the hyperbolic mode that runs through the works produced by many of the region's most well-known authors. His deft readings and compelling argument deepen our understanding of southern writing published during this critical period.