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Madison Jones' Garden of Innocence

Author : Jan Nordby Gretlund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Madison Jones' Garden of Innocence written by Jan Nordby Gretlund and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madison Jones is a central figure in American literature, but paradoxically not well-known. He writes about conflicts between the native and the alien, tradition and progress, and innocence and experience. He is the author of eleven novels, including The Innocent, An Exile (film: I Walk the Line), A Cry of Absence, Season of the Strangle, and Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light. His novel Herod's Wife appeared in 2003. He is the winner of the T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing. Like his fellow novelists George Garrett and David Madden, who have contributed to this volume, Jones shares the regret at the loss of inherited values. He has been praised by the critics Ashley Brown, Monroe Spears, and Lewis P. Simpson, as an important transitional writer. And according to contemporary writers Madison Smartt Bell, William Hoffman, and Lee Smith, his novels are lessons in the possibility of the immediate. As the essays in this collection show, Madison Jones has a dark view of human experience, but also self-knowledge and compassion. He has succeeded in finding his own voice and has created an emphatically moral world that transcends its Southern particulars.

Perspectives on Barry Hannah

Author : Martyn Bone
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578069194
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Barry Hannah written by Martyn Bone and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning examination of a masterful fiction writer�s output

The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144224349X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction written by David Madden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of writings by the celebrated author David Madden provides a multitude of reflections on the Civil War and Reconstruction, from nonfiction to fiction. Included are Madden’s examination of key works by historians James McPherson and Fletcher Pratt, the story of the effort to simultaneously burn nine bridges by nine unionist guerrilla bands in the most complicated and coordinated guerrilla tactic of the war, and rediscoveries of both classic and contemporary works of Civil War fiction from William Faulkner, Joseph Stanley Pennell, and more. Alongside these essays are pieces from Madden’s Civil War novel, Sharpshooter, which illustrate the interconnectedness of fiction and nonfiction. This meshing of iconoclastic and controversial pieces includes varied perspectives on every aspect of the war and reconstruction, from culture and civilian life to an imagining of Abraham Lincoln’s critique of how historians have recorded the war and its aftermath. By exploring this web of perception, we can better understand the war and, in turn, shed greater light on the present and the future.

Conversations with Ron Rash

Author : Mae Miller Claxton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496808975
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Ron Rash written by Mae Miller Claxton and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Serena in 2008 earned him a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, Ron Rash (b. 1953) has gained attention as one of the South's finest writers. Rash draws upon his family's history in Appalachia, where most members have worked with their hands as farmers or millworkers. In the Grit Lit or Rough South genre, Rash maintains a prominent place as a skilled craftsman and triple threat, publishing four collections of poetry, six short story collections, and six novels. Though best known as an Appalachian writer, Rash's reach has grown to extend well beyond Appalachia and the American South, spreading to an international audience. Conversations with Ron Rash collects twenty-two interviews with the award-winning author and provides a look into Rash's writing career from his first collection of short stories, The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth in 1994 through his 2015 novel, Above the Waterfall. The collection includes four interviews from outside the United States, two of which appear in English for the first time. Spanning sixteen years, these interviews demonstrate the disciplined writing process of an expert writer, Rash's views of literature on a local and a global scale, his profound respect for the craft of the written word, and his ongoing goal to connect with his readers.

Southern Writers Bear Witness

Author : Jan Nordby Gretlund
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178770
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Southern Writers Bear Witness written by Jan Nordby Gretlund and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen Southern storytellers reveal their influences, methods and daily routines, and struggles with the writing process Jan Nordby Gretlund has been studying the literature of the American South for some fifty years, and his outsider's perspective as a European scholar has made him an intellectually acute witness of both the literature and its creators. Whether it is their language and reflexive storytelling or the craft and techniques by which writers transform life and experience into art that fascinates Gretlund, elements of their fiction led to his interviews with the fourteen storytellers featured in Southern Writers Bear Witness. Gretlund believes a good interview will always reveal something about a writer's life and character, details that can inform a reading of that writer's fiction. The interviewer's task, according to Gretlund, is to supply the reader with some of the sources and experiences that inspired and shaped the fiction. Through his conversations Gretlund also occasionally elicits the subjects' reflections on other writers and their work to discover affiliations, lines of influence, and divergences, and he also emphasizes the enduring power of their work. His interviews with Eudora Welty and Pam Durban uncover strong family and community experiences found at the core of their fiction. Gretlund also turns conversations to the craft of writing, writers' daily routines, and specific problems encountered in their work, such as Clyde Edgerton's struggle with point of view. In other exchanges he investigates distinctive elements of a writer's work, such as violence in Barry Hannah's fiction and religious faith in Walker Percy's. Still other conversations, such as his with Josephine Humphreys, touch on the pressures and opportunities of publishing and its influence on the writer's work. Taken together, these authors' insights on life in the South provide a fascinating window into the creative process of storytelling as well as the human experiences that fuel it. A foreword by Daniel Cross Turner, author of Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South and co-editor of Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry, is also included. Featured Authors: Pat Conroy Pam Durban Clyde Edgerton Percival Everett Kaye Gibbons Barry Hannah Mary Hood Josephine Humphreys Madison Jones Martin Luther King Sr. Walker Percy Ron Rash Dori Sanders Eudora Welty

Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South

Author : Jean W. Cash
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604736364
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South written by Jean W. Cash and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from Robert G. Barrier, Robert Beuka, Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Jean W. Cash, Robert Donahoo, Richard Gaughran, Gary Hawkins, Darlin' Neal, Keith Perry, Katherine Powell, John A. Staunton, and Jay Watson Larry Brown is noted for his subjects—rural life, poverty, war, and the working class—and his spare, gritty style. Brown's oeuvre spans several genres and includes acclaimed novels (Dirty Work, Joe, Father and Son, The Rabbit Factory, and A Miracle of Catfish), short story collections (Facing the Music, Big Bad Love), memoir (On Fire), and essay collections (Billy Ray's Farm). At the time of his death, Brown (1951–2004) was considered to be one of the finest exemplars of minimalist, raw writing of the contemporary South. Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South considers the writer's full body of work, placing it in the contexts of southern literature, Mississippi writing, and literary work about the working class. Collectively, the essays explore such subjects as Brown's treatment of class politics, race and racism, the aftereffects of the Vietnam War on American culture, the evolution of the South from a plantation-based economy to a postindustrial one, and male-female relations. The role of Brown's mentors—Ellen Douglas and Barry Hannah—in shaping his work is discussed, as is Brown's connection to such writers as Harry Crews and Dorothy Allison. The volume is one of the first critical studies of a writer whose depth and influence mark him as one of the most well-regarded Mississippi authors.

Still in Print

Author : Jan Nordby Gretlund
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611172640
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Still in Print written by Jan Nordby Gretlund and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful guidebook to some of the best examples of modern Southern fiction, as selected by an international group of critics In Still in Print, eighteen southern novels published since 1997 fall under the careful scrutiny of an international cast of accomplished literary critics to identify the very best of recent writings in the genre. These essays highlight the praiseworthy efforts of a pantheon of novelists celebrating and challenging regionality, unearthing manifestations of the past in the present, and looking to the future with wit and healthy skepticism. Organized around shared themes of history, place, humor, and malaise, the novels discussed here interrogate southern culture and explore the region's promise for the future. Four novels reconsider the Civil War and its aftermath as Charles Frazier, Kaye Gibbons, Josephine Humphreys, and Pam Durban revisit the past and add fresh insights to contemporary discussions of race and gender through their excursions into history. The novels by Steve Yarbrough, Larry Brown, Chris Offutt, Barry Hannah, and James Lee Burke demonstrate a keen sense of place, rooted in a South marked by fundamentalism, poverty, violence, and rampant prejudice but still capable of promise for some unseen future. The comic fiction of George Singleton, Clyde Edgerton, James Wilcox, Donald Harington, and Lewis Nordan shows how southern humor still encompasses customs and speech reflected in concrete places. Ron Rash, Richard Ford, and Cormac McCarthy probe the depths of human existence, often with disturbing results, as they write about protagonists cut off from their own humanity and desperate to reconnect with the human race. Diverse in content but unified in genre, these particular novels have been nominated by the contributors to Still in Print for long-term survival as among the best modern representations of the southern novel. Featuring: M. Thomas Inge on Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain Clara Juncker on Josephine Humphreys's Nowhere Else on Earth Kathryn McKee on Kaye Gibbons's On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon Jan Nordby Gretlund on Pam Durban's So Far Back Tara Powell on Percival Everett's Erasure Tom Dasher on Steve Yarbrough's The Oxygen Man Jean Cash on Larry Brown's Fay Carl Wieck on Chris Offutt's The Good Brother Owen W. Gilman Jr. on Barry Hannah's Yonder Stands Your Orphan Hans H. Skei on James Lee Burke's Crusader's Cross Charles Israel on George Singleton's Work Shirts for Madmen John Grammer on Clyde Edgerton's The Bible Salesman Scott Romine on James Wilcox's Heavenly Days Edwin T. Arnold on Donald Harington's Enduring Marcel Arbeit on Lewis Nordan's Lightning Song Thomas Ærvold Bjerre on Ron Rash's One Foot in Eden Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. on Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land Richard Gray on Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Unsteadily marching on

Author : Constante González Groba
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 849134148X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Unsteadily marching on written by Constante González Groba and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No se ha introducido texto.

Flannery O'Connor Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flannery O'Connor Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Innocent

Author : Madison Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 187994118X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book The Innocent written by Madison Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southerner's attempt to restore an antique way of life ends in murder.

Appalachian Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A regional studies review.

Choice

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Touching the Web of Southern Novelists

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Touching the Web of Southern Novelists written by David Madden and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Madden is one of the South's most notable contemporary writers. His interests are remarkably vast. He has published award-winning fiction, poetry, plays, critical works, and essays on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from history to popular culture. This collection represents Madden's essays on various other southern writers and his own struggle to come to terms with how the works and lives of these writers have influenced his own life and work. By analyzing the charged image of the spider web, as described in chapter four of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, Madden shows that it is a central symbol for his involvement with the interconnected, complex tradition of contemporary southern literature. Touching the Web of Southern Novelists brings together essays on Faulkner, Warren, McCullers, Wolfe, Agee, and a new essay on Evelyn Scott. More than a collection of criticism, the book explores, in overlapping, far-reaching ways, how influence works its way through the southern literary tradition. It also includes an unusually detailed index. Two of the common elements in the essays are the dynamics and consequences of the relationship of an ostensible hero to his or her witnesses and the art of fiction, especially in the technique of using a charged image-a term that Madden invented. Another element is the overwhelming, if sometimes hidden, effect of the Civil War upon southern fiction. Madden provocatively argues that no northerner can write a “true” Civil War novel. All Southern fiction comes out of the Civil War, he argues, and that Absalom, Absalom! is the best Civil War novel because of its complex implications-not because it is overtly about the war. Perhaps most powerful because of its semi-autobiographical nature, Touching the Web of Southern Novelists will appeal to anyone with an interest in literary studies and how art and life in southern novels are entwined with each other-caught in a web.

American Literary Scholarship

Author : James Leslie Woodress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Literary Scholarship written by James Leslie Woodress and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nashville 1864

Author : Madison Jones
Publisher : J.S. Sanders Books
ISBN 13 : 1461733219
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Nashville 1864 written by Madison Jones and published by J.S. Sanders Books. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning novel follows twelve-year-old Steven Moore and his slave companion on a nightmarish journey behind Union lines.

Actress

Author : Madison Ava Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982624500
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Actress written by Madison Ava Jones and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The First Gardener

Author : Denise Hildreth Jones
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414360460
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The First Gardener written by Denise Hildreth Jones and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah Williams has been tending the gardens of the Tennessee governor’s mansion for over twenty-five years. And like most first families who have come and gone, this one has stolen his heart. Mackenzie and her husband, Governor Gray London, have struggled for ten years to have a child and are now enjoying a sweet season of life—anticipating the coming reelection and sending their precious daughter, Maddie, off to kindergarten—when a tragedy tears their world apart. As the entire state mourns, Mackenzie falls into a grief that threatens to swallow her whole. Though his heart is also broken, Jeremiah realizes that his gift of gardening is about far more than pulling weeds and planting flowers. It’s about tending hearts as well. As he uses the tools that have been placed in his hands, he gently begins to cultivate the hard soil of Mackenzie’s heart, hoping to help her realize what it took him years to discover. A Southern tale of loss, love, and living, The First Gardner reminds us that all of life is a gift, but our heart is the most valuable gift of all.