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Southern Writers
A New Biographical Dictionary
Av Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel
Häftad, 1980
302 kr
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Biographical sketches of 378 writers associated with the American South are included in this important new reference work. Compiled by 172 scholars, these summaries--many of which are not readily available elsewhere--provide in their total effect a brief history of southern literature from colonial …
Kate Chopin
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 1980
353 kr
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Kate Chopin was a nationally acclaimed short story artist of the local colour school when she in 1899 shocked the American reading public with The Awakening, a novel which much resembles Madame Bovary. Though the critics praised the artistic excellence of the book, it was generally condemned for …
Complete Works of Kate Chopin
Inbunden, 1969
1620 kr
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In 1969, Per Seyersted gave the world the first collected works of Kate Chopin. Seyersted's presentation of Chopin's writings and biographical and bibliographical information led to the rediscovery and celebration of this turn-of-the-century author. Newsweek hailed the two-volume opus, ""In story …
Achievement of Robert Penn Warren
Häftad, 1981
384 kr
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Crisscrossing the sprawling landscape of Robert Penn Warren, James H. Justus offers us the first comprehensive survey of Warren's complete canon, including the poetry of 1980. The temptation for everyone who has written on Warren, our most distinguished man of letters still active in American …
Genius of Place
William Faulkner's Triumphant Beginnings
Av Max Putzel
Häftad, 1985
384 kr
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Until recently most discussions of William Faulkner have centered exclusively on his novels. Yet no chronicle of Faulkner's Growth as a literary artist, perhaps America's foremost in this century, can afford to overlook the years he spent struggling to establish himself as a writer of short …
Selected Stories from the Southern Review
Av Lewis P. Simpson, Donald E. Stanford m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
384 kr
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In the twenty years of its existence, the second series of the Southern Review continued the editorial orientation of the first series by presenting a range of regional and cosmopolitan works of fiction. This anthology is a collection of twenty-five short stories from the nearly three hundred …
Witness in Philadelphia
Häftad, 1989
334 kr
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On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Florence Mars, a native of Philadelphia, recounts the grim circumstances of the killings and describes what happened to a community confronted by a …
Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor
Häftad, 1993
384 kr
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Flannery O'Connor believed that fiction must try to achieve something on the order of what St. Gregory wrote about Scripture: every time it presents a fact, it must also disclose a mystery. O'Connor's artistic vision was located squarely in her Catholic faith, yet she realised that to view life …
Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty
Inbunden, 1994
588 kr
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In this study, Ruth D. Weston probes the whole of Eudora Welty's work to reveal the writer's close relationship to the gothic tradition. Specifically, Weston shows how Welty employs the theme of enclosure and escape and settings that convey a sense of mystery, gothic adaptations both, to create …
Starwick Episodes
Av Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
317 kr
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One of the most enduring characters in Thomas Wolfe's fiction is Francis Starwick, the Midwestern aesthete who befriends Eugene Grant at Harvard in Wolfe's second autobiographical novel, Of Time and the River. Wolfe created Starwick in order to provide a foil for the artistic development of Eugene: …
Family Saga in the South
Generations and Destinies
Inbunden, 1995
588 kr
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The family saga is a literary form much practiced in southern writing but little analysed in scholarship and criticism. The Family Saga in the South, Robert O. Stephens' lively, absorbing study, examines at last and in depth this genre whose roots extend to the Old Testament.The development of the …
Talking About William Faulkner
Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others
Av Sally Wolff, Floyd C. Watkins
Inbunden, 1996
424 kr
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Wolff and Floyd C. Watkins, both of Emory University, took students of southern literature to Lafayette County, Mississippi, to explore the region where William Faulkner lived. They visited Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi; trekked around the …
Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgement
Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection
Inbunden, 1999
588 kr
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An icon in African American history, Nat Turner has generated almost every kind of cultural product, including the historical, imaginative, scholarly, folk, polemical, and reflective. In Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment, Mary Kemp Davis offers an original, in-depth analysis of six novels in …
Literary New Orleans
Essays and Meditations
Häftad, 1998
253 kr
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This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers - George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin - as well as three prolific twentieth-century authors who called the Crescent City ""home"" at various times: William Faulkner, Tennessee …
Road from Pompey's Head
The Life and Work of Hamilton Basso
Inbunden, 1999
543 kr
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Facts are deceptive. Fiction is truth. . . . Impious though it may sound, the novelist can play God. Nothing is hidden from him, nothing is concealed. He can approach as close to the truth as his genius permits."" - Hamilton BassoNovelist, literary critic, an articulate voice within The New …
Walker Percy, the Last Catholic Novelist
Häftad, 1998
443 kr
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In this important study, Kieran Quinlan examines the theological principles and religious views that underlay Walker Percy's writing, primarily his belief in the validity and efficacy of the Roman Catholic faith, and offers some new and controversial conclusions.Quinlan grounds the writer's …
Faulkner's Country Matters
Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha
Häftad, 1999
317 kr
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Daniel Hoffman's bold new readings reveal unsuspected dimensions in Faulkner's The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. He shows how these works, often regarded as disunified collections of short stories and novellas, are coherent and successful experiments in novelistic form.These last …
Kate Chopin Reconsidered
Beyond the Bayou
Av Lynda S. Boren, Sarah deSaussure Davis
Häftad, 1999
384 kr
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In this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin's life and art from a variety of critical perspectives, biographical, New Historicist, materialist, poststructuralist, feminist, with several of the pieces focusing on Chopin's classic novel, The …
Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt
Häftad, 1999
384 kr
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The career of any black writer in nineteenth-century American was fraught with difficulties, and William Andrews undertakes to explain how and why Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) became the first Negro novelist of importance: ""Steering a difficult course between becoming co-opted by his white …
Art of Walker Percy
Stratagems for Being
Häftad, 1999
384 kr
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The writings of Walker Percy, as Panthea Broughton notes in her introduction, are at once both accessible and inaccessible. Because they tempt readers to identify with characters and recognise ideas, they have gained a large and enthusiastic following. But because they are subtle and complicated, …
John Crowe Ransom's Secular Faith
Häftad, 1999
317 kr
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Recent interest in the life and works of John Crowe Ransom has brought to light the many apparent contradictions and discontinuities in the career of this important man of letters. A noted poet, Ransom chose to devote his energies primarily to the composition of prose. A southern agrarian in the …
Sleeping with the Boss
Female Subjectivity and Narrative Pattern in Robert Penn Warren
Av Lucy Ferriss
Häftad, 1997
270 kr
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To her self-posed questions ""What is a woman's narrative?"" and ""Why Warren?"" Lucy Ferriss responds with an acutely perceptive examination that is groundbreaking in two regards. Sleeping with the Boss opens up the feminist critical project by showing that author gender has no bearing on the …
Grace King
A Southern Destiny
Häftad, 1999
384 kr
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The New Orleans writer Grace King was an intensely loyal daughter of the South. Fostered by bitter memories of the Civil War, her loyalty was kept burning by her family's struggle to regain its wealth and maintain its social position during the long agony of Reconstruction.In Grace King: A Southern …
Welcome to Our City
A Play in Ten Scenes
Av Thomas Wolfe, Richard S. Kennedy
Häftad, 1999
317 kr
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In 1920 Thomas Wolfe left the South with the strong desire to become a dramatist. To pursue his chosen craft, he enrolled in the Harvard 47 Workshop, at that time the most renowned in the nation. At first he wrote plays about Appalachian society and the Civil War. But it was not until Wolfe turned …
Southern Mothers
Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing
Av Nagueyalti Warren, Sally Wolff
Häftad, 1999
379 kr
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Southern Mothers, a collection of critical essays by prominent southern literary scholars, examines the significance of motherhood in southern fiction. The belle, the mammy, religion, and racism are several of the distinctive threads with which southern women writers have woven the fabric of their …
Yeoman Versus Cavalier
The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion
Häftad, 1999
317 kr
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In Yeoman Versus Cavalier: The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion, Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr., examines the emergence of the planter-aristocrat over the yeoman as the dominant cultural icon in the newly settled states of the Old Southwest - Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, …
Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms
Cultural Traditions and Literary Form
Häftad, 1999
317 kr
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William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was the preeminent southern man of letters in the antebellum period, a prolific, talented writer in many genres and an eloquent intellectual spokesman of r his region. During his long career, he wrote plays, poetry, literary criticism, biography and history; but he …
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 …
Prophets of Recognition
Idelogy and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty
Häftad, 1999
379 kr
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An arresting comparative analysis, Prophets of Recognition invites readers to consider four well-known post-World War II American novels, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Saul Bellow's Seize the Day, and Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter, from a different …
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
The Apprentice Years 1924-1934
Inbunden, 2000
603 kr
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In America's twentieth century, there is no man of letters more versatile, distinguished, and influential than the poet, novelist, editor, critic, social commentator, and teacher Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989). The most intimate of Warren's ""letters,"" his personal correspondence, now join his …
