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24 produkter
Narrative Forms of Southern Community
Av Scott Romine
Häftad, 1999
384 kr
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In this succinct study, Scott Romine considers a key paradox that has been associated with the concept of ""community"" from the beginning of modern southern literary criticism: namely, that communities often valued for their cohesiveness and moral stability were at the same time sites of …
Real South
Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction
Av Scott Romine
Häftad, 2014
449 kr
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In this stimulating study, Scott Romine explores the impact of globalization on contemporary southern culture and the South's persistence in an age of media and what he terms ""cultural reproduction."" Rather than being compromised, Romine asserts, southern cultures are both complicated and …
Cavaliers and Economists
Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820-1860
Av Katharine A. Burnett, Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2019
656 kr
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Offering a compelling intervention in studies of antebellum writing, Katharine A. Burnett's Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820-1860 examines how popular modes of literary production in the South emerged in tandem with the region's economic …
Reading Reconstruction
Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South
Av Kathryn B. McKee, Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2019
656 kr
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Kathryn B. McKee's Reading Reconstruction situates Mississippi writer Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883) as an astute cultural observer throughout the 1870s and 1880s who portrayed the discord and uneasiness of the Reconstruction era in her fiction and nonfiction works. McKee reveals …
Deep Water
The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain
Av Thomas Ruys Smith, Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2019
656 kr
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Mark Twain's visions of the Mississippi River offer some of the most indelible images in American literature: Huck and Jim floating downstream on their raft, Tom Sawyer and friends becoming pirates on Jackson's Island, the young Sam Clemens himself at the wheel of a steamboat. Through Twain's …
Southern Hyperboles
Metafigurative Strategies of Narration
Av Michał Choiński, Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2020
662 kr
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In Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration, Micha? Choi?ski confronts the often paradoxical and excessive elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative modes and representation strategies in works produced from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. With renewed …
Belles and Poets
Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women
Inbunden, 2020
727 kr
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In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world around them through references to literary texts. Nitz finds that many diarists incorporated allusions to poems, plays, and …
Postregional Fictions
Barry Hannah and the Challenges of Southern Studies
Inbunden, 2021
662 kr
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Drawing from recent debates about the validity of regional studies and skepticism surrounding the efficacy of the concept of authenticity, Clare Chadd's Postregional Fictions focuses on questions of southern regional authenticity in fiction published by Barry Hannah from 1972 to 2001. The first …
Faulknerista
Av Catherine Gunther Kodat, Scott Romine
Häftad, 2022
501 kr
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Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as freestanding essays and now updated and revised, the book's …
Faulknerista
Av Catherine Gunther Kodat, Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2022
858 kr
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Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as freestanding essays and now updated and revised, the book's …
Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster
The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair with New York City
Av Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr., Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2023
596 kr
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Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In this richly detailed work of literary and …
Ruin and Resilience
Southern Literature and the Environment
Inbunden, 2023
596 kr
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In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum literature and cinema, Spoth's analysis winds from John Muir's walking journey across the war-torn …
Dirty South
Exploring a Fantasized Region, 1970–2020
Av James A. Crank, Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2023
568 kr
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The Dirty South examines the shifting significances of the South as a constructed, fantasized region in the American psyche, particularly its frequent association with tropes of dirt that emphasize soil, garbage, trash, grit, litter, mud, swamp water, slime, and pollution. Beginning with iconic …
Achievement of Cormac McCarthy
Av Vereen M. Bell, Jr. Rubin, Louis D. m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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Now back in print, Vereen M. Bell's The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book devoted to an author who would become one of the most celebrated American writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Published in 1988, before McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize and …
Faulkner and the Politics of Reading
Av Karl F. Zender, Fred Hobson m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
384 kr
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With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of Faulkner's achievement. Sympathetically acknowledging the need to decenter the canon, Zender's searching …
America's Imagined Revolution
The Historical Novel of Reconstruction
Av Tomos Wallbank-Hughes, Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2024
596 kr
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America's Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution. Reading historical fiction by authors such as George Washington …
Dangerous Innocence
White Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider's Appeal, 1960-2020
Av William P. Murray, Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2024
531 kr
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Dangerous Innocence investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the U.S. South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the "southern outsider" in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020, William P. Murray probes white Americans' enduring …
Southerners Acting Southern
On Celebrities and Their Star Personas in the Imagined South
Inbunden, 2025
808 kr
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What is the difference between a star born in the South and a "southern star"? In Southerners Acting Southern, Tison Pugh answers this intriguing question, pondering the ways in which some performers from the South metamorphose into southern stars by accentuating their geographic and cultural roots …
Southerners Acting Southern
On Celebrities and Their Star Personas in the Imagined South
Häftad, 2025
450 kr
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What is the difference between a star born in the South and a "southern star"? In Southerners Acting Southern, Tison Pugh answers this intriguing question, pondering the ways in which some performers from the South metamorphose into southern stars by accentuating their geographic and cultural roots …
Bad Poor
Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit
Av Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2026
596 kr
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The Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary-cultural …
Keywords for Southern Studies
Av Scott Romine, Jennifer Rae Greeson
Inbunden, 2016
1732 kr
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In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to …
Keywords for Southern Studies
Av Scott Romine, Scott Romine m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
710 kr
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In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to …
Zombie Memes of Dixie
Av Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2024
2134 kr
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This book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clichés, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. South—for example, that it has been shaped by a warm climate; that its people are hospitable and enjoy a slower pace of life; that it is characterized by localist …
Zombie Memes of Dixie
Av Scott Romine
Häftad, 2024
452 kr
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This book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clichés, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. South—for example, that it has been shaped by a warm climate; that its people are hospitable and enjoy a slower pace of life; that it is characterized by localist …
