Where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog : on writers and writing / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

American literature.

Southern States.

American literature--History and criticism.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Southern States--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Southern States--In literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 144 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2005]

Summary:

"Examines the problems facing the American literary scene, including creative writing programs, sports writing, Southern literature, publishing, and poetry, with references to William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, James Joyce, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain, Joyce Carol Oates, T. S. Eliot, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Herman Melville, and Ernest Hemingway"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The ordeal of unconstant moose

On the literary uses of memory

Where the Southern cross the Yellow dog : a time, a place, a painting

Thoughts on fictional places

Questions of intent : some thoughts on author-ship

Bloom's leap : or, how firm a foundation

What are all those writers doing on campus?

The progress of poetry : or, a funny thing happened on the way to the bookstore

Slugging it out with Dempsey and others

Polemical coda : our absolutely deplorable literary situation

and some thoughts on how to fix it good.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826216080

OCLC:

60421214

Publisher Number:

9780826216083