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Southern writers at century's end
- Title
- Southern writers at century's end / Jeffrey J. Folks & James A. Perkins, editors.
- Publication
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1997.
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- Description
- xiii, 288 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The essays in this book consider the work of twenty-one Southern writers whose most significant fiction has appeared in the last quarter of this century. This book highlights the work of writers ranging from John Grisham to Bobbie Ann Mason, from Alice Walker to Cormac McCarthy, from Clyde Edgerton to Anne Tyler. The book's contributors reveal the ways in which Southern fiction of the last twenty-five years differs from that which preceded it. In particular, these writers have explored a wider variety of settings and demonstrated a greater awareness of popular culture than earlier writers as they struggle with the human costs of rapid social change.--adapted from jacket.
- Subject
- Since 1865
- Geschichte 1975-1995
- American literature > Southern States > History and criticism
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southern States
- American literature
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts
- Intellectual life
- Literature
- Epik
- Literatur
- Schrijvers
- Amerikaans
- Southern States > Intellectual life > 1865-
- Southern States > In literature
- Southern States > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Southern States
- USA > Südstaaten
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Randall Garrett Kenan: myth and reality in Tims Creek / Doris Betts -- Mary Hood: the dark side of the moon / David Aiken -- James Wilcox: the normality of madness / Hugh Ruppersburg -- John Grisham: obsessive imagery / Randolph Paul Runyon -- James Lee Burke: " ... always the first inning" / William Bedford Clark and Charlene Kerne Clark -- T.R. Pearson: debatable heroes / Mary Bozeman Hodges -- Tim McLaurin: Keeper of the moon / Sue Laslie Kimball -- Richard Marius: "the brooding mystery" / Carroll Viera -- Robert Drake: the railroad as metaphor / James A. Perkins -- Kaye Gibbons: her full-time women / Nancy Lewis -- Barry Hannah: Geronimo Rex in retrospect / David Madden -- Anne Tyler: wrestling with the "lowlier angel" / James Grove -- Bobbie Ann Mason: searching for home / Albert E. Wilhelm -- Cormac McCarthy: restless seekers / John G. Cawelti -- Alice Walker: The Color Purple as allegory / Winifred Morgan -- Fred Chappell : midquestions / Randolph Paul Runyon -- Josephine Humphreys: "hope's last stand" / Elizabeth A. Ford -- Richard Ford: postmodern cowboys / Jeffrey J. Folks -- Andre Dubus: "never truly members" / Lucy Ferriss -- Clyde Edgerton: death and dying / James A. Grimshaw, Jr. -- Lee Smith: Ivy Rowe as woman and artist / Elizabeth Pell Broadwell.
- ISBN
- 0813120322
- 9780813120324
- LCCN
- 97014744
- OCLC
- ocm36877335
- 36877335
- SCSB-2135955
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library