There are times when the beautiful artificial language of academia creates jokes that wouldn’t be anywhere near as funny if written in normal conversational voice. An example, from an essay by Jerry ...
Editor's Note: This is the first part of a two-part column. The second piece will be published in Ovation on Feb. 10. Missouri has long dipped its toe into the edge of the deep swamp that is Gothic ...
William Faulkner may be one of the most well-known writers of the 20th century. But you might not associate his name with southern literature if not for Louis Rubin. Rubin helped develop the genre of ...
US Southern literature? Isn't that something to do with Huck Finn, rocking chairs on the porch, mint juleps and evil plantation owners? Not necessarily. Literary scholar Martyn Bone from the ...
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - What is Southern Literature? That was the topic of discussion at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature conference in Gulfport. “How do we talk about Southern ...
The Oxford American bills itself as the “Southern Magazine of Good Writing.” This month the emphasis is on the good and the truly great, as the magazine offers its first ever “Southern Literature” ...
Most readers are familiar with the work of William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Flannery O’Connor, but what about George Moses Horton? Caroline Miller? Or John Ridge? Reviving the overlooked or ...
Jerry Leath Mills reigns as the unchallenged authority on the subject of dead mules in 20th-century American southern literature. Professor Mills established his reputation – almost instantly – in ...
Jamie Kornegay's Soil is Southern Gothic at its best: atmospheric, dark, and funny. Kornegay, a bookseller for over a decade in addition to being an author, picks the best Southern Gothic books. As a ...
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