The Mississippi Quarterly by Anonim
Title | The Mississippi Quarterly |
Author | Anonim |
Publisher | Unknown |
Release Date | 2002 |
Category | Authors |
Total Pages | 86 |
ISBN | UCAL:B4744961 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Title | The Mississippi Quarterly |
Author | Anonim |
Publisher | Unknown |
Release Date | 2002 |
Category | Authors |
Total Pages | 86 |
ISBN | UCAL:B4744961 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Title | Mississippi Quarterly |
Author | Anonim |
Publisher | Unknown |
Release Date | 1997 |
Category | American literature |
Total Pages | 86 |
ISBN | UCSD:31822025191636 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Title | A Faulkner Miscellany |
Author | James B. Meriwether |
Publisher | University Press of Mississippi |
Release Date | 1974 |
Category | Southern States |
Total Pages | 166 |
ISBN | UOM:39015003344960 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Title | Mark Twain Travel Books and Tourism |
Author | Jeffrey Alan Melton |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Release Date | 2002-06-26 |
Category | History |
Total Pages | 200 |
ISBN | 9780817311605 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature With the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain's five major travel narratives--The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator--demonstrate Twain's mastery and reinvention of the genre.
Title | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner |
Author | William Faulkner |
Publisher | Vintage |
Release Date | 2011-05-18 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 736 |
ISBN | 9780307791641 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
This invaluable volume, which has been republished to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Faulkner's birth, contains some of the greatest short fiction by a writer who defined the course of American literature. Its forty-five stories fall into three categories: those not included in Faulkner's earlier collections; previously unpublished short fiction; and stories that were later expanded into such novels as The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. With its Introduction and extensive notes by the biographer Joseph Blotner, Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner is an essential addition to its author's canon--as well as a book of some of the most haunting, harrowing, and atmospheric short fiction written in the twentieth century.
Title | Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition |
Author | Noel Polk |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Release Date | 2008 |
Category | History |
Total Pages | 220 |
ISBN | 1604733233 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
As one of the preeminent scholars of southern literature, Noel Polk has delivered lectures, written journal articles and essays, and discussed the rich legacy of the South's literary heritage around the world for over three decades. His work on William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, and other writers is incisive and groundbreaking. His essays in Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition maintain an abiding interest in Polk's major area of literary study: the relationship between the smaller units of construction in a literary work and the work's larger themes. The analysis of this interplay between commas and dashes, curious occlusions, passages, and characters who have often gone unnoticed in the critical discourse--the bricks and mortar, as it were--and a work's grand design is a crucial aspect of Polk's scholarship. Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition collects Polk's essays from the late-1970s to 2005. Featuring an introduction that places Faulkner and Welty at the center of the South's literary heritage, the volume asks useful, probing questions about southern literature and provides insightful analysis. Noel Polk is professor of English at Mississippi State University and editor of the Mississippi Quarterly. From 1981 to 2006, he edited the Library of America's complete edition of William Faulkner's novels. He is the author of Outside the Southern Myth; Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner; and Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work.
Title | Encyclopedia of American Humorists |
Author | Steven H. Gale |
Publisher | Routledge |
Release Date | 2016-04-14 |
Category | Humor |
Total Pages | 558 |
ISBN | 9781317362272 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Title | Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams |
Author | Greta Heintzelman |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Release Date | 2009-01-01 |
Category | Dramatists, American |
Total Pages | 449 |
ISBN | 9781438108568 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
One of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams is known for his sensitive characterizations, poetic yet realistic writing, ironic humor, and depiction, of harsh realties in human relationship. His work is frequently included in high school and college curricula, and his plays are continually produced. Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams includes entries on all of Williams's major and minor works, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, a novel, a collection of short stories, two poetry collections, and personal essays; places and events related to his works; major figures in his life; his literary influences; and issues in Williams scholarship and criticism. Appendixes include a complete list of Williams's works; a list of research libraries with significant Williams holdings; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Title | William Faulkner s The Wild Palms |
Author | Thomas L. McHaney |
Publisher | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi |
Release Date | 1975 |
Category | Literary Criticism |
Total Pages | 209 |
ISBN | UCAL:B4445406 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Title | Mississippi Writers |
Author | Dorothy Abbott |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Release Date | 1986-05 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 735 |
ISBN | 087805233X |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
More than one hundred Mississippi writers recount their experiences growing up in the South, including encounters with racism
Title | Perspectives on Barry Hannah |
Author | Martyn Bone |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Release Date | 2006-12-04 |
Category | Literary Criticism |
Total Pages | 198 |
ISBN | 9781604735055 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
"Perspectives on Barry Hannah" is a collection of essays devoted to the work of the award-winning fiction writer Barry Hannah. The anthology features a broad range of critical approaches and covers the span of Hannah's career from "Geronimo Rex" (1972) to "Yonder Stands Your Orphan" (2001). The book also includes a previously unpublished interview with Hannah. The ten essays cover all of Hannah's thirteen published books. The contributors give fresh perspectives on Hannah's classic works ("Airships" and "Ray"), provide illuminating readings of important fiction that has received less critical attention ("Nighwatchmen," "Hey Jack!," and "Never Die"), and offer the first sustained criticism of Hannah's acclaimed later fiction ("Bats Out of Hell," "High Lonesome," and "Yonder Stands Your Orphan"). As Martyn Bone explains in his introduction, the essays--though varied in approach and style--consistently hone in on the recurrent themes that characterize Hannah's career: his relationship to postmodernism; his interrogation of traditional ideas of masculinity and heroism; his complex engagement with southern history, literature, and culture; and his growing concern with spirituality and morality. The essays in "Perspectives on Barry Hannah" make connections between Hannah's work and that of several prominent modern and postmodern authors, including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Allen Tate, John Irving, J. M. Coetzee, and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors also consider Hannah's fiction in relation to non-literary cultural forms such as sport, film, and popular music. Ultimately, "Perspectives on Barry Hannah" affirms Hannah's status as a leading figure in contemporary American literature. Martyn Bone is assistant professor of American literature at the Institute for English, German, and Romance Languages at the University of Copenhagen. His previous publications include "The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction."
Title | The Form Discovered |
Author | Melvin Eustace Bradford |
Publisher | Univ & College Press |
Release Date | 1973 |
Category | Literary Criticism |
Total Pages | 110 |
ISBN | UOM:39015008530274 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
"An Andrew Lytle checklist": p. 97-108.
Title | Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer |
Author | Elizabeth Spencer |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Release Date | 1991 |
Category | Literary Criticism |
Total Pages | 238 |
ISBN | 0878055282 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Collected interviews with the author of The Light in the Piazza, For Lease or Sale, and Fire in the Morning
Title | Conversations with Shelby Foote |
Author | Shelby Foote |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Release Date | 1989 |
Category | History |
Total Pages | 276 |
ISBN | 0878053867 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Interviews spanning thirty-seven years of the American author's career cover his feelings on the art of writing, life in the South, writers who have influenced him, and the Civil War
Title | Welty |
Author | Albert J. Devlin |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Release Date | 2007-11 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 322 |
ISBN | 160473020X |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Eudora Welty's first important publication, this special collection of critical essays celebrates her achievement as an incomparable literary artist. Since 1936, when "Death of a Traveling Salesman" was published, the excellence of her stories, novels, essays and collections has been giving unceasing acclaim, and she has become one of the most honored and most esteemed of American writers. The essays in this collection convey the scholarly pleasure one finds in studying the works of Eudora Welty. Although they employ varying critical methodologies, pleasure is at the source of the examinations published in this book. In these essays, forma, mythic, and thematic criticism from a variety of scholars offers fresh access to A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and Delta Wedding. One bibliographical study included shows Welty to be keenly attuned to the nuances of meaning during the writing and revising of The Optimist's Daughter, deepening, clarifying, making more precise a novel of inestimable personal feeling. In another essay, Welty's close attention to the world is examined in relation to an early story "At the Landing," to the remarkable photography of One Time, One Place, and to her recent memoir, One Writer's Beginnings. Also included is a study of Eudora Welty in relation to Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish writer. A new interview with Miss Welty, which unifies this collection, and a checklist of Welty materials that updates Welty scholarship enhance this volume and bring further scholarly acknowledgement to this celebrated author's significant artistic stature and preeminent literary worth.
Title | The Humor of the Old South |
Author | M. Thomas Inge |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Release Date | 2015-01-13 |
Category | Humor |
Total Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 9780813159638 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The humor of the Old South -- tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters -- flourished between 1830 and 1860. The genre's popularity and influence can be traced in the works of major southern writers such as William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Harry Crews, as well as in contemporary popular culture focusing on the rural South. This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty five years' best writing on the subject, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor. Other chapters examine the origins of this early humor, in particular selected poems of William Henry Timrod and Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," which anticipate the subject matter, character types, structural elements, and motifs that would become part of the Southwestern tradition. Renditions of "Sleepy Hollow" were later echoed in sketches by William Tappan Thompson, Joseph Beckman Cobb, Orlando Benedict Mayer, Francis James Robinson, and William Gilmore Simms. Several essays also explore antebellum southern humor in the context of race and gender. This literary legacy left an indelible mark on the works of later writers such as Mark Twain and William Faulkner, whose works in a comic vein reflect affinities and connections to the rich lode of materials initially popularized by the Southwestern humorists.
Title | Mississippi s Piney Woods |
Author | Noel Polk |
Publisher | Unknown |
Release Date | 1986 |
Category | History |
Total Pages | 188 |
ISBN | UVA:X001146449 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Title | William Faulkner s The Sound and the Fury |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Release Date | 2008-01-01 |
Category | Juvenile Nonfiction |
Total Pages | 230 |
ISBN | 9780791096277 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
A critical overview of the work features the writings of Gail Moor Morrison, Gary Storhoff, Margaret Bauer, Jeffrey J. Folks, and other scholars.
Title | The Bombay quarterly review |
Author | Anonim |
Publisher | Unknown |
Release Date | 1856 |
Category | |
Total Pages | 86 |
ISBN | BSB:BSB10790606 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Title | The Quarterly Journal |
Author | Anonim |
Publisher | Unknown |
Release Date | 1878 |
Category | Geology |
Total Pages | 86 |
ISBN | NYPL:33433107650800 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |