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But Now I See
The term ""conversion narrative"" usually refers to a particular form of expression that arose in Puritan New England in the seventeenth century. In that sense, the purely …
Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty …
Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South
The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not …
Imagining Our Time
Lewis P. Simpson towers among scholars of American literary studies, as an intellectual historian of the South and American literary culture and a revered essayist. His last book, …
Off the Rim Volume 1
Why should a particular game, played with a round ball by twenty-year-olds in short pants often hundreds of miles away, mean so much to me, since I seem to have so little to gain …
South-Watching
Gerald W. Johnson of North Carolina and Baltimore was one of the most prominent American journalists of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding essayists of any age. The …
Literature at the Barricades
Literature at the Barricades provides an overview of the 1930s literary scene with reprints of such classic as James T. Farrell's ""The End of a Literary Decade"".
The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays
Perhaps the preeminent contemporary scholar of southern letters, Fred Hobson is adept at cutting through the many myths and self-illusions spun about the South and exposing a far …
Southern Enigma
El Sur americano esta repleto de paradojas: se trata de uno de los lugares mas hospitalarios y menos acogedores del mundo. Los ensayos incluidos en este libro constituyen la …
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred …
Tell About the South
In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the …
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred …