Product Description: Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity...read more

Product Description: In the last decade of his life, Robert Penn Warren remained a vibrant force in American literature, producing new works of poetry and nonfiction while also dealing courageously with the gradual decline of his health and the diminishment of his poetic powers...read more

This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions, and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality, and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies, and the history of storytelling in America.

Product Description: "I agree with that....The poetry in the country has become sort of a company affair where support for the arts has just about ruined the arts and the system of bureaucrats managing the funds that are being developed here and there, is turning into trade unionism, which may be the best way to write poetry, but it is unfamiliar to me"-A...read more

Product Description: Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, Thomas Wolfe. The South has long revered its literary luminaries. Their talent for evoking a sense of place in their settings and in their characters reflects an elemental connection to their home soil...read more

Product Description: This study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston. Here their memoirs are placed within a context of southern feminism and the more inclusive discourse of modern American liberalism...read more

Product Description: "excellent presentation ...artfully crafted...well researched and written.... a pure joy to read" -The Book Review

Product Description: Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the concept of home and the importance of home to the homo viator ("man on his way"), and anti-idealism and anti-romanticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The role of melancholy and alienation in the evolution of nineteenth-century southern letters From Edgar Allan Poe's "dark forebodings" to Kate Chopin's lifelong struggle with sorrow and loss, depression has shadowed southern letters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many of America's foremost, and most beloved, authors are also southern and female: Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Lee Smith, to name several...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Scholars frequently assume that the Southern Agrarian movement was limited to the philosophy laid out in the landmark 1930 book I'll Take My Stand. Yet that work consisted mainly of a philosophical critique of a nation that valued "progress" above spirituality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A vivid oral biography of the late Eugene Walter describes his Southern roots and its influence on his life, his journey to Greenwich Village in the late-1940s, experiences in 1950s Parisian expatriate cafe society and 1960s Rome, and his encounters with such luminaries as William Faulkner, Martha Graham, Judy Garland, and Marcello Mastroianni. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Continuing where Volume One of the Selected Letters left off, the missives from Warren's Baton Rouge years show the young author exploring and testing the boundaries of his genius on a number of simultaneous fronts. Editing the Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks (a colleague on the English faculty at Louisiana State University) was the centre of his working life and it offered an almost immediate springboard to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume of personal correspondence takes Warren from the awkwardness of an emerging genius during his fugitive student years at Vanderbilt to the brink of producing great work in a newly appointed post at Louisiana State University. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Shares looks at Southern life by James Agee, Harry Crews, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Reynolds Price, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard Wright