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Author : George William Koon
Publisher : Peachtree Junior
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Collection of Classic Southern Humor II written by George William Koon and published by Peachtree Junior. This book was released on 1986 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George William Koon
Publisher : Peachtree Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780931948596
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (485 download)
Download or read book A Collection of Classic Southern Humor written by George William Koon and published by Peachtree Pub Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and short stories by authors such as Eudora Welty, Larry King, and Harry Crews provide a humorous view of life in the American South
Author : Roy Blount
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393036954
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor written by Roy Blount and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1994 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of contemporary Southern humor includes more than 150 stories, sketches, essays, poems, memoirs, and song lyrics from William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Zora Neal Hurston, Dave Barry, and other contributors
Author : M. Thomas Inge
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185459
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Humor of the Old South written by M. Thomas Inge and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humor of the Old South—tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters—flourished between 1830 and 1860. The genre's popularity and influence can be traced in the works of major southern writers such as William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Harry Crews, as well as in contemporary popular culture focusing on the rural South. This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty five years' best writing on the subject, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor. Other chapters examine the origins of this early humor, in particular selected poems of William Henry Timrod and Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," which anticipate the subject matter, character types, structural elements, and motifs that would become part of the Southwestern tradition. Renditions of "Sleepy Hollow" were later echoed in sketches by William Tappan Thompson, Joseph Beckman Cobb, Orlando Benedict Mayer, Francis James Robinson, and William Gilmore Simms. Several essays also explore antebellum southern humor in the context of race and gender. This literary legacy left an indelible mark on the works of later writers such as Mark Twain and William Faulkner, whose works in a comic vein reflect affinities and connections to the rich lode of materials initially popularized by the Southwestern humorists.
Author : John Q. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780826518880
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (188 download)
Download or read book With the Bark On written by John Q. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print: A collection of old Southern humor. Reissue.
Author : George William Koon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Collection of Classic Southern Humor written by George William Koon and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The range of these stories is as broad as the South itself. Included are Eudora Welty's classic piece about sibling rivalry, and John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning account in A Confederacy of Dunces; traditional stories of Southern good old boys and girls who are forever having head-on collisions with each other and with modernity -- like Harry Crews' characters, or like Lewis Grizzard's faith healer, or like Florence King's debutantes; the darker humor, born of an extraordinary ability to understand and accept human nature -- Flannery O'Connor, and Lisa Alther. These pieces range from work by some of America's best-known fiction writers through the best of the essayists who have brought Southern ways to the New Journalism. ISBN 0-931948-55-X : $12.95.
Author : Edward Piacentino
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807130865
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor written by Edward Piacentino and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Southwest flourished between 1830 and 1860, but its brand of humor lives on in the writings of Mark Twain, the novels of William Faulkner, the television series The Beverly Hillbillies, the material of comedian Jeff Foxworthy, and even cyberspace, where nonsoutherners can come up to speed on subjects like hickphonics. The first book on its subject, The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor engages topics ranging from folklore to feminism to the Internet as it pays tribute to a distinctly American comic style that has continued to reinvent itself. The book begins by examining frontier southern humor as manifested in works of Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Woody Guthrie, Harry Crews, William Price Fox, Fred Chappell, Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, and African American writers Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Ishmael Reed, and Yusef Komunyakaa. It then explores southwestern humor’s legacy in popular culture—including comic strips, comedians, and sitcoms—and on the Internet. Many of the trademark themes of modern and contemporary southern wit appeared in stories that circulated in the antebellum Southwest. Often taking the form of tall tales, those stories have served and continue to serve as rich, reusable material for southern writers and entertainers in the twentieth century and beyond. The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor is an innovative collaboration that delves into jokes about hunting, drinking, boasting, and gambling as it studies, among other things, the styles of comedians Andy Griffith, Dave Gardner, and Justin Wilson. It gives splendid demonstration that through the centuries southern humor has continued to be a powerful tool for disarming hypocrites and opening up sensitive issues for discussion.
Author : Ed Piacentino
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617037699
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Southern Frontier Humor written by Ed Piacentino and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuvenation of scholarly interest. Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches represents the next step in this revival, providing a series of essays with fresh perspectives and contexts. First, the book shows the importance of Henry Junius Nott, a virtually unknown and forgotten writer who mined many of the principal subjects, themes, tropes, and character types associated with southern frontier humor, followed by an essay addressing how this humor genre and its ideological impact helped to stimulate a national cultural revolution. Several essays focus on the genre’s legacy to the post-Civil War era, exploring intersections between southern frontier humor and southern local color writers—Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Sherwood Bonner. Mark Twain’s African American dialect piece “A True Story,” though employing some of the conventions of southern frontier humor, is reexamined as a transitional text, showing his shift to broader concerns, particularly in race portraiture. Essays also examine the evolution of the trickster from the Jack Tales to Hooper’s Simon Suggs to similar mountebanks in novels of John Kennedy Toole, Mark Childress, and Clyde Edgerton and transnational contexts, the latter exploring parallels between southern frontier humor and the Jamaican Anansi tales. Finally, the genre is situated contextually, using contemporary critical discourses, which are applied to G. W. Harris’s Sut Lovingood and to various frontier hunting stories.
Author : Thomas Inge
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272207
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Southern Frontier Humor written by Thomas Inge and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. Twain himself learned to write by reading the humorists’ work, and later writers were influenced by it. This book marks the first new collection of humor from that region published in fifteen years—and the first fresh selection of sketches and tales to appear in over forty years. Thomas Inge and Ed Piacentino bring their knowledge of and fondness for this genre to a collection that reflects the considerable body of scholarship that has been published on its major figures and the place of the movement in American literary history. They breathe new life into the subject, gathering a new selection of texts and adding Twain—the only major American author to contribute to and emerge from the movement—as well as several recently identified humorists. All of the major writers are represented, from Augustus Baldwin Longstreet to Thomas Bangs Thorpe, as well as a great many lesser-known figures like Hamilton C. Jones, Joseph M. Field, and John S. Robb. The anthology also includes several writers only recently discovered to be a part of the tradition, such as Joseph Gault, Christopher Mason Haile, James Edward Henry, and Marcus Lafayette Byrn, and features authors previously overlooked, such as William Gilmore Simms, Ham Jones, Orlando Benedict Mayer, and Adam Summer. Selections are timely, reflecting recent trends in literary history and criticism sensitive to issues of gender, race, and ethnicity. The editors have also taken pains to seek out first printings to avoid the kinds of textual corruptions that often occur in later versions of these sketches. Southern Frontier Humor offers students and general readers alike a broad perspective and new appreciation of this singular form of writing from the Old South—and provides some chuckles along the way.
Author : John Mayfield
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059364
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Counterfeit Gentlemen written by John Mayfield and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2009-03-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a man in the pre–Civil War South? And how can we answer the question from the perspective of the early twenty-first century? John Mayfield does so by revealing how early nineteenth-century Southern humorists addressed the anxieties felt by men seeking to chart a new path between the old honor culture and the new market culture. Lacking the constraints imposed by journalism or proper literature, these writers created fictional worlds where manhood and identity could be tested and explored.
Author : Gloria Hander Lyons
Publisher : Blue Sage Press
ISBN 13 : 0984243836
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Kiss My Grits, Sugar written by Gloria Hander Lyons and published by Blue Sage Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since I'm a Southern girl through and through, I figured it was high time I got around to writing a book filled with good old Southern recipes. My mouth is watering just thinking about fried chicken, potato salad, banana pudding and pecan pie. This book is chock full of my family's favorites. And because I'm not the serious type, I like my food served up with some humor on the side. So I tucked in a few tall tales from my childhood about me and my kin to tickle your funny bone. Inside you'll find 19 humorous short stories about growing up in the South during the 1950s, plus more than 80 recipes for good old-fashioned Southern cooking. Come on in and sit a spell, sugar. Enjoy a chuckle or two, then whip up some of these tasty fixin's. Visit www.BlueSagePress.com to read more.
Author : Celia Rivenbark
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312339937
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank written by Celia Rivenbark and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the SEBA Book of the Year "We're Just Like You Only Prettier," Rivenbark's irresistibly hilarious essays explore the American South's glorious excesses and contradictions. These treasures are sure to leave readers hankerin' for more!
Author : Terry Southern
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806511672
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Red-dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes written by Terry Southern and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the "new journalism" of Wolfe, Talese, and Kubrick, before the Brave Gonzo World of Hunter S. Thompson, there was legendary cult writer Terry Southern. This widely recognized underground classic is a collection of Southern's short pieces--two dozen hilarious, well-observed sketches which expose the hypocrisy of American social mores.
Author : Wade Hall
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603060863
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Reflections of the Civil War in Southern Humor written by Wade Hall and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the organic forms of literature, humor has always responded to and reflected the needs of the people at a given time, and the Civil War and its aftermath were days of the South's greatest need. Historians have suggested many reasons for the South's fearless stand against "overwhelming numbers and resources," to use General Lee's words. In this short study, author and historian Wade Hall adds one reason to the list: the humor of the Southerner -- as soldier and civilian -- during the war and the bleak days that followed it. The South arose from the ashes of humiliation and defeat smiling -- though sometimes through tears. The Southerner's sense of humor helped him to fight a war he believed honorable and to accept the bitter defeat which ended it. Without the escape valve of humor, many a "rebel" would have succumbed to despair. The Southerner could smile wistfully as he looked back on a proud past and hopefully as he looked forward to an uncertain future. He smiled because he read humorists like Bill Arp, who once wrote somewhat serio-comically that the South was "conquered but not convinced." In this study, Hall has attempted to represent all the types of humor written in the South between the beginning of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I, specifically 1861 and 1914, including war memoirs, novels, plays, short stories, poetry, and songs. After a survey of humor written during the war, Hall discusses the soldier, the Negro, the poor white, and the "folks at home" in wartime, as they are reflected in the postwar humor.
Author : Kelly Kazek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575719924
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (199 download)
Download or read book It's a Southern Thing written by Kelly Kazek and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, We were sticky and sweaty 'cause this is the South." This is how the night before Christmas begins in the South. The weather may be balmy sometimes, but Southerners can still put on a Christmas celebration like no other. No matter the weather or the state, there's no mistaking Santa loves the South. This fun, whimsically illustrated version of the traditional "Night Before Christmas" is perfect for families to read aloud at their annual celebrations. Merry Christmas, y'all! "As he flew overhead, he exclaimed in delight: 'Blessed Christmas to y'all and to y'all a good night!'" - 28 Pages
Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524748838
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Ghost Variations written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers. A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly trees that haunt the occupant of a wooden house, specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead: these are just a few of the characters in this extraordinary compendium of one hundred ghost stories. Kevin Brockmeier’s fiction has always explored the space between the fantastical and the everyday with profundity and poignancy. As in his previous books, The Ghost Variations discovers new ways of looking at who we are and what matters to us, exploring how mysterious, sad, strange, and comical it is to be alive—or, as it happens, not to be.
Author : Cappy Hall Rearick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781401056766
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Simply Southern written by Cappy Hall Rearick and published by . This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may have enjoyed her columns, you may have belly laughed during her readings...now sit back and relish a fresh view of the South made visible in these beguiling stories. A grandmother who jokes about her Grandkids from Hell? Nobody is sacred. Her characters are real, some rather strange, but always memorable. If you were not born Southern, you will want to apply for citizenship after reading this book. Laugh, cry and feel the spirit of the South move you as you mosey down the uncommon ground with this award winning author. Cappy Hall Rearick, the new voice of the South. Cappy´s website is: www.simplysoutherncappy.com
