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  1. A Certain Slant of Light: Regionalism and the Form of Southern and Midwestern Fiction
  2. A Disturbing and Alien Memory: Southern Novelists Writing History
  3. A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition
  4. Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival
  5. Becoming Cajun, Becoming American: The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke
  6. Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach
  7. C. M. Haile's "Pardon Jones" Letters: Old Southwest Humor from Antebellum Louisiana
  8. Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind
  9. Domestic Novelists in the Old South: Defenders of Southern Culture
  10. Dream Garden: The Poetic Vision of Fred Chappell
  11. Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade?
  12. Faithful Vision
  13. Far from Home: Selected Letters of William Humphrey
  14. Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture
  15. Faulkner and the Politics of Reading
  16. Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth
  17. Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-Millennial South
  18. Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty
  19. History of Southern Women's Literature
  20. Imagining Our Time: Recollections and Reflections on American Writing
  21. Letters to My Father
  22. Louisiana Culture from the Colonial Era to Katrina
  23. Making History: The Biographical Narratives of Robert Penn Warren
  24. Minstrelsy and Murder: The Crisis of Southern Humor, 1835-1925
  25. More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell
  26. Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection
  27. Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War
  28. Novels of William Styron: From Harmony to History
  29. Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945-1971 (Southern Literary Studies
  30. Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature
  31. Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing
  32. Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty
  33. River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain
  34. Robert Penn Warren After Audubon: The Work of Aging and the Quest for Transcendence in His Later Poetry
  35. Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation
  36. Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
  37. Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: New Beginnings and New Directions, 1953-1968
  38. Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Volume Three Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952
  39. Selected Letters Robert Penn Warren Volume 2
  40. Self and Community in the Fiction of Elizabeth Spencer
  41. Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing
  42. Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary
  43. Starwick Episodes
  44. Talking about William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others
  45. Tears of Rage: The Racial Interface of Modern American Fiction-Faulkner, Wright, Pynchon, Morrison
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  50. The Evolving Self in the Novels of Gail Godwin
  51. The Family Saga in the South: Generations and Destinies
  52. The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950
  53. The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History
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  55. The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel
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  58. The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction
  59. The Road from Pompey's Head: The Life and Work of Hamilton Basso
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Desire, Violence & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy

by Gary M. Ciuba

Desire, Violence & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy Cover

ISBN13: 9780807131756
ISBN10: 080713175x
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ISBN:
9780807131756
Subtitle:
Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
Author:
Ciuba, Gary M.
Publisher:
Louisiana State University Press
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
American literature
Subject:
Violence in literature
Subject:
Desire in literature
Series:
Southern Literary Studies
Publication Date:
January 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
287
Dimensions:
8.98x6.42x1.06 in. 1.28 lbs.

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