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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"A literary travelogue that ventures deep into the heart of classic Southern literature. As the writer Elif Batuman did for Russian literature in The Possessed, Margaret Eby does for Southern literature in this charming book of literary exploration. From Mississippi (William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Barry Hannah) to Alabama (Harper Lee, Truman Capote) to Georgia (Flannery O'Connor, Harry Crews) and beyond, Eby--herself a Southerner--travels...
Description
Through a series critically acclaimed novels, Cormac McCarthy has established himself as a major voice in American fiction of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His works are marked by explorations of the nature of evil and the uncontrollable forces that often govern human lives. Includes chronology.
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 10
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1962, c1961]
10) Carson McCullers
Author
Series
Publisher
Ungar
Pub. Date
[1975]
Description
Among the elements of style and theme discussed is the "poignant vision of isolation and loneliness in smalltown America".
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi,...
Author
Series
Eugenia Dorothy Blount Lamar memorial lectures volume 1959
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[1960]
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