Touching the web of southern novelists / David Madden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madden, David, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American fiction.

Southern States.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-.

Intellectual life.

Southern States--In literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction: What a Tangled Web We Weave When We Practice Fiction 1

Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: The Charged Image of the Web 31

William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Quentin! Listen! 41

Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas": The Charged Image of Laura and Braggioni 59

Flannery O'Connor: Old Testament Christian Storyteller 71

Thomas Wolfe: A Reed of Demonic Ecstasy 77

Thomas Wolfe's Lost Men: From Gettysburg to Chickamauga 91

Ernest Gaines's "Just Like a Tree": Roots 103

Jesse Hill Ford: On the Loose 113

Carson McCullers: Transfixed among the Self-Inflicted Ruins 131

George Garrett: Continually Astonished by Everything 151

Barry Hannah: Geronimo Rex's Thirty-three-Years' Reign 159

Cormac McCarthy's The Orchard Keeper: Web Montage 167

James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Cruel Radiance of What Is 175

James Agee Never Lived in This House: A Short Story 193

Evelyn Scott's Breathe upon These Slain: A Gallery of Imagined Photographs 205

William Faulkner's Sanctuary: Freudian Photographs in the 1929 Version 223

Other Essays on Southern Writers in Various Genres: A Chronological Bibliography 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-238) and index.

ISBN:

1572334630

OCLC:

61499925

Publisher Number:

9781572334632