The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Literature v. 9 (New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture): Volume 9: Literature - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807858757 ISBN 13: 9780807858752

Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 2008

Synopsis

This work documents the evolution of southern literature.Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" celebrates 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 original Encyclopedia, 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.

About this title

Review:

An essential reference book for students and scholars who need a single, contemporary volume from which they can begin their research.--Southern Literary Journal

About the Author:

M. Thomas Inge is Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of Humanities at Randolph-Macon College. He is author or editor of numerous books, including <i>William Faulkner</i> and the four-volume <i>Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture</i>.

About this edition

• Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0807858757
• ISBN 13: 9780807858752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536
• Editor: Wilson Charles Reagan