The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 9, Literature /
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 9: Literature.
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2008]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | New encyclopedia of Southern culture ;
v. 9. |
| Summary: | New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 9: Literature. "Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume ofThe New Encyclopedia of Southern Culturecelebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the originalEncyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship."--JSTOR website (viewed April 13, 2017) |
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| Item Description: | "Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 511 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781469616643 1469616645 9781469616650 1469616653 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |