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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816599503321
• Autore: Winchell Mark Royden <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-8262-6509-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/975
• Soggetti: American literature - Southern States - History and criticism; Regionalism in literature; Southern States Intellectual life 1865-; Southern States In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographic references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.