Reinventing the South : versions of a literary region / Mark Royden Winchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winchell, Mark Royden, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Regionalism in literature.

Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-.

Southern States.

Southern States--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Surveys the revivification and reinvention of southern culture and literature, and the influence of the Agrarians, Fugitives, New Critics, and popular writers, including John Gould Fletcher, Robert Penn Warren, Monroe K. Spears, Walter Sullivan, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, William Humphrey, and Cormac McCarthy"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Reinventing the South

Contents

Preface

1. This Land Is Your Land

2. Arkansas Traveler

3. Renaissance Man

4. The Legacy of Monroe K. Spears

5. Incarnate Words

6. "What They Have to Say about Us"

7. The Faulkner Wars

8. Family Values in Go Down, Moses

9. Why Streetcar Keeps Running

10. Come Back to the Locker Room Ag'in, Brick Honey!

11. The Achievement of William Humphrey

12. Scum of the Earth

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6509-X

OCLC:

191952271