Owen Robinson / Richard Gray

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South

Herausgeber: Gray, Richard; Robinson, Owen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South. Consisting of over 30 original contributions, each of them written by an acknowledged authority in their field, the Companion reveals the diversity of the Southern region, as expressed in different forms of thought, work, and imaginative play. The first major section, concentrating on themes and issues, looks at the distinctive cultural characteristics of the American South and includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history and politics. The second focuses on writers who have made significant contributions to Southern thinking and the imaginative reinvention of the South. These include Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, and range from the earliest writers in the region to all those - black and white, male and female - who are writing now.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 668
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1433g
• ISBN-13: 9780631224044
• ISBN-10: 0631224041
• Artikelnr.: 21221485

Autorenporträt

Richard Gray is Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Essex. His books include The Literature of Memory: Modern Writers of the American South, Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region (which won the C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature), American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography, Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism, and A History of American Literature. He is also editor of a number of collections and anthologies, and a regular reviewer for various newspapers and journals, including the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review. He is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Owen Robinson is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author of several articles on the novels of William Faulkner, and is editing A Routledge Guide to Light in August. He is currently working on writing centred on New Orleans, and on reader-writer relations in African American literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction.

Part II: Themes and Issues.

Part III: Individuals and Movements.

Part IV: Afterword.

Index

Rezensionen

"The exhaustive range of part 2, "Themes and Issues" merits praise.Rather than focussing on literature or a narrow definition ofculture, the editors have solicited some fine essays in subjectsranging from music and religion to sports and popular culture."(American Studies, April 2009)

A CHOICE 'OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE'

"The latest volume in Blackwell's "Companions toLiterature and Culture" series features 33 brief essays thatrun the gamut of the Southern experience, from the Jamestownsettlers to the contemporary era...Like Blackwell guides, thequality of the essays is high, and the authors cover as many pointsas possible within the space limits given them. Highly recommended.All academic and public libraries." (Choice)

"[T]he many contributors, British and American, to this splendidcompendium of fact and opinion demonstrate the rich variety ofliterature and music that has emanated from the South in the past150 years [...] The Companion is methodical in its overallstructure and is comprehensive, informative and clearly writtenthroughout. Each chapter has extensive lists of references andfurther reading and the index is full and accurate. This is a workthat will remain a vital source for students of the subject andthat can be profitably used by readers in general." (ReferenceReviews)