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  • Clear-Cutting Eden

    Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature

    by Dr. Christopher Rieger ...
    Examines how Southern literary depictions of the natural world were influenced by the historical, social, and ecological changes of the 1930s and 1940sRieger studies the ways that nature is conceived of and portrayed by four prominent Southern writers of the era: Erskine Caldwell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, and William Faulkner. Specifically, he argues that these writers created ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Faulkner’s Fashion

    Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing

    by Professor Christopher Rieger ...
    The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkner's novels and short stories.Clothing is one of the most important and pervasive material items throughout William Faulkner's fiction. Faulkner's Fashion analyzes the writer's use of clothing from a variety of critical approaches, considering how clothing and dress intersect with race, class, and gender across Faulkner's works ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Southern Comforts

    Drinking and the U.S. South

    by Scott Romine, Alison Arant, John Stromski, Susan Zieger, Cara Koehler, Matthew Sutton, Caleb Doan, J. Gerald Kennedy, Katharine Burnett, Zackary Vernon, Monica Carol Miller, Ellen Lansky, David A. Davis, Jenna Sciuto, Christopher Rieger, Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield, Robert Rea, Hannah C. Griggs, Jennie Lightweis-Goff ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South.Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Language as Liberation

    Reflections on the American Canon

    by Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky ...
    Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Wendell Berry

    Life and Work

    by Jason Peters ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    A portrait of an American thinker with contributions by Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben, Sven Birkerts, Wes Jackson, and more: "A masterful collection." — Charlotte ObserverEssayist, social critic, poet, "mad farmer," novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels. With a unique ... Read more

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  • Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

    by Ben Child ...
    Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. “When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness of Eggleston’s palette and his disregard for the conventions of black-and-white photography were shocking; ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Flat-Footed Truths

    Telling Black Women's Lives

    by Patricia Bell-Scott ...
    A new and exciting collection from Patricia Bell-Scott, the editor of the enormously successful Life Notes and the award-winning Double Stitch. With a foreword by Marcia Ann Gillespie.To tell the flat-footed truth is a southern saying that means to tell the naked truth. This revealing and inspiring anthology brings together twenty-seven creative spirits who through essays, interviews, poetry, and ... Read more

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  • Animals and Women

    Feminist Theoretical Explorations

    by Joan Dunayer, Lynda Birke, Marti Kheel ...
    Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are inextricably connected to the ways in which we comprehend and abuse other species. Furthermore, it ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Ethics, Literature, and Theory

    An Introductory Reader

    by Dudley Barlow, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Cunningham, John Gardner, Marshall Gregory, John J. Han, Jack Harrell, Richard E. Hart, Barbara A. Heavilin, Marianne Jennings, Bernard Malamud, Toni Morrison, Georgia A. Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, James Phelan, Mary R. Reichardt, Nina Rosenstand, Stephen L. Tanner, John Updike, John H. Wallace, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Bruce Young, Charles Johnson, Jay Parini, David R. Parker, Richard A. Posner ...
    Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Henry David Thoreau

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of U. S. literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

    Edited by John T. Matthews ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkner's fiction, such as its reflection of the concurrent emergence of cinema, social inequality and rights movements, modern ways ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Race and the Literary Encounter

    Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett

    by Lesley Larkin ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of ... Read more

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