Book Description
Collected interviews with the author of The Light in the Piazza, For Lease or Sale, and Fire in the Morning
Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780878055289
Collected interviews with the author of The Light in the Piazza, For Lease or Sale, and Fire in the Morning
Author : C. Seltzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230623395
This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity.
Author : Terry Roberts
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 9780807141588
Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496840070
In conferring upon Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer (1921–2019) the 2013 Rea Award for the Short Story, the jury said that at the then age of ninety-two, she “has thrived at the height of her powers to a degree that is unparalleled in modern letters.” Over a celebrated six-decade career, Spencer published every type of literary fiction: novels and short stories, a memoir, and a play. Like her best-known work, The Light in the Piazza, most of her narratives explore the inner lives of restless, searching southern women. Yet one mercurial male character, Edward Glenn, deserves attention for the way he insists on returning to her pages. Speaking of Edward in unusually personal terms, Spencer admitted a strong attraction to his type: the elusive, intelligent southern man, “maybe an unresolved part of my psyche.” In The Edward Tales, Sally Greene brings together the four narratives in which Edward figures: the play For Lease or Sale (1989) and three short stories, “The Runaways” (1994), “Master of Shongalo” (1996), and “Return Trip” (2009). The collection allows readers to observe Spencer’s evolving style while offering glimpses of the moral reasoning that lies at the heart of all her work. Greene’s critical introduction helpfully places these narratives within the context of Spencer’s entire body of writing. The Edward Tales confirms Spencer’s place as one of our most beloved and accomplished writers.
Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617036862
The reprinting of a major southern writer's New Orleans novel that explores a young woman's temptation to live on the periphery of evil
Author : Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780878052066
Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 143812743X
Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."
Author : Joseph R. Urgo
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1604730587
Although he spent the bulk of his life in Oxford, Mississippi-far removed from the intellectual centers of modernism and the writers who created it—William Faulkner (1897–1962) proved to be one of the American novelists who most comprehensively grasped modernism. In his fiction he tested its tenets in the most startling and insightful ways. What, then, did such contemporaries as Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, and Walker Evans think of his work? How did his times affect and accept what he wrote? Faulkner and His Contemporaries explores the relationship between the Nobel laureate, ensconced in his “postage stamp of native soil,” and the world of letters within which he created his masterpieces. In this anthology, essays focus on such topics as how Faulkner's literary antecedents (in particular, Willa Cather and Joseph Conrad) influenced his writing, his literary/aesthetic feud with rival Ernest Hemingway, and the common themes he shares with fellow southerners Welty and Evans. Several essays examine the environment in which Faulkner worked. Deborah Clarke concentrates on the rise of the automobile industry. W. Kenneth Holditch shows how the city of New Orleans acted as a major force in Faulkner's fiction, and Grace Elizabeth Hale examines how the civil rights era of Faulkner's later career compelled him to deal with his ideas about race and rebellion in new ways.
Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 3854 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 143814069X
Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.
Author : Betina Entzminger
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807128367
When Scarlett O’Hara fluttered her dark lashes, did she threaten only the gentleman in her parlor or the very culture that produced her? Examining the “bad belle” as a recurring character, The Belle Gone Bad finds that white southern women writers from the antebellum period to the present have used treacherous belles to subtly indict their culture from within. Combining the southern ideal of ladyhood with the sexual power of the dark seductress, the bad belle is the perfect figure with which to critique a culture that effectively enslaved both its white and black women. Betina Entzminger traces the development of the bad belle from nineteenth-century domestic novelist E.D.E.N. Southworth to contemporary novelist Kaye Gibbons. Coy and alluring like the traditional southern belle, the bad belle is also manipulative and knowing; the men subject to her cultivated charms often meet disastrous ends. By making the patriarch vulnerable to women who outwardly conform to the limiting conventions of womanhood but inwardly break all the rules, these writers challenged a society that stereotyped black women as promiscuous and forced white women onto pedestals while committing heinous acts in their name. Representations of the bad belle evolved along with southern society, and by the late twentieth century, many women writers expressed emancipation through the literal or figurative destruction of corrupt or would-be belles. The Belle Gone Bad shows that even writers who have been critically dismissed as too domestic or conservative to be innovative did—through the strategy of the bad belle character—challenge southern institutions and conceptions about race, class, and gender. What unites the dangerous belles created by several generations of women writing in the South, old and new, is their liberating potential.