Faulkner and Welty and the southern literary tradition / Noel Polk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polk, Noel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--Southern States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Women and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

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

American literature.

Southern States--Intellectual life.

Southern States.

Southern States--In literature.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Faulkner, William.

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001--Criticism and interpretation.

Welty, Eudora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Polk's essays in this book maintain an abiding interest in his major area of literary study: the relationship between the smaller units of construction in a literary work and the work's larger themes. The book is a collection of his essays from the late 1970s to 2005. Featuring an introduction that places Faulkner and Welty at the centre of the South's literary heritage, it asks probing questions about southern literature.

Contents:

Faulkner and Welty and the southern literary tradition

How Shreve gets in to Quentin's pants

Faulkner in the Luxembourg gardens

Testing masculinity in the Snopes trilogy

Reading blood and history in Go down, Moses

Faulkner and the Commies

War and modernism in a fable

Scar

Water, wanderers, and weddings: going to naples and to no place

The landscape of alienation in "Old Mr. Marblehall"

Domestic violence in "The purple hat," "Magic," and "The doll"

The ponderable heart.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-48598-9

9786612485985

1-60473-323-3

OCLC:

317402395