Geronimo Rex

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555846435

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Geronimo Rex by Barry Hannah Pdf

Nominated for the National Book Award, Barry Hannah’s brilliant debut offers “a fresh angle on the great American subject of growing up” (John Updike). Roiling with love and torment, lunacy and desire, hilarity and tenderness, Geronimo Rex is the bildungsroman of an unlikely hero. Reared in gloomy Dream of Pines, Louisiana, whose pines have long since yielded to paper mills, Harry Monroe is ready to take on the world. Inspired by the great Geronimo’s heroic rampage through the Old West, Harry puts on knee boots and a scarf and voyages out into the swamp of adolescence in the South of the 1950s and ’60s. Along the way he is attacked by an unruly peacock; discovers women, rock ’n’ roll, and jazz; and stalks a pervert white supremacist who fancies himself the next Henry Miller in this “stunning piece of entertainment . . . vulgar, ribald, and wildly comic” (TheNew York Times). “Hannah writes about adolescence with a rare pizzazz and insight.” —Rolling Stone

Author : Martyn Bone
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 157806919X

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Perspectives on Barry Hannah by Martyn Bone Pdf

A career-spanning examination of a masterful fiction writer�s output

Author : Larry McCaffery,Sinda Gregory
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252060113

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Alive and Writing by Larry McCaffery,Sinda Gregory Pdf

Author : Owen W. Gilman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1617035343

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Vietnam and the Southern Imagination by Owen W. Gilman Pdf

Author : James G. Thomas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496804365

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Conversations with Barry Hannah by James G. Thomas Pdf

Between 1972 and 2001, Barry Hannah (1942-2010) published eight novels and four collections of short stories. A master of short fiction, Hannah is considered by many to be one of the most important writers of modern American literature. His writing is often praised more for its unflinching use of language, rich metaphors, and tragically damaged characters than for plot. "I am doomed to be a more lengthy fragmentist," he once claimed. "In my thoughts, I don't ever come on to plot in a straightforward way." Conversations with Barry Hannah collects interviews published between 1980 and 2010. Within them Hannah engages interviewers in discussions on war and violence, masculinity, religious faith, abandoned and unfinished writing projects, the modern South and his time spent away from it, the South's obsession with defeat, the value of teaching writing, and post-Faulknerian literature. Despite his rejection of the label "southern writer," Hannah's work has often been compared to that of fellow Mississippian William Faulkner, particularly for each author's use of dark humor and the Southern Gothic tradition in their work. Notwithstanding these comparisons, Hannah's voice is distinctly and undeniably his own, a linguistic tour de force.

Author : Ruth D. Weston
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1578068142

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Barry Hannah by Ruth D. Weston Pdf

A thematic tour of the complete works from this exceptional Southern writer.

Author : Jeffrey J. Folks,James A. Perkins
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813189512

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Southern Writers at Century's End by Jeffrey J. Folks,James A. Perkins Pdf

Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States. The rapid change that climaxed with the war in Vietnam, the Cold War, civil rights demonstrations, and Watergate has forced the traditional South to come to terms with social upheaval. As the essays collected in Southern Writers at Century's End point out, southern writing: since 1975 reflects the confusion and violence that have characterized late-twentieth-century public culture. These essays consider the work of twenty-one of the foremost southern writers whose most important fiction has appeared in the last quarter of this century. As the region's contemporary writers have begun to gain a wide audience, critics have begun to distinguish what Hugh Holman has called "the fresh, the vital, and the new" in southern literary culture. Southern Writers at Century's End is the first volume to take an extensive look at the current generation of southern writers. Authors considered include: James Lee Burke, Fred Chappell, Robert Drake, Andre Dubus, Clyde Edgerton, Richard Ford, Kaye Gibbons, John Grisham, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Richard Marius, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Tim McLaurin, T.R. Pearson, Lee Smith, Anne Tyle,r Alice Walker, and James Wilcox.

Author : Lawrence Wells
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496829931

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In Faulkner's Shadow by Lawrence Wells Pdf

What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner’s Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that. In 1972, Wells married Dean Faulkner, the only niece of William Faulkner, and slowly found himself lost in the Faulkner mystique. While attempting to rebel against the overwhelming influence of his in-laws, Wells had a front-row seat to the various rivalries that sprouted between his wife and the members of her family, each of whom dealt in different ways with the challenges and expectations of carrying on a literary tradition. Beyond the family stories, Wells recounts the blossoming of a literary renaissance in Oxford, Mississippi, after William Faulkner’s death. Both the town of Oxford and the larger literary world were at a loss as to who would be Faulkner’s successor. During these uncertain times, Wells and his wife established Yoknapatawpha Press and the quarterly literary journal the Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review. In his dual role as publisher and author, Wells encountered and befriended Larry Brown, Barry Hannah, Willie Morris, and many other writers. He became both participant and observer to the deeds and misdeeds of a rowdy collection of talented authors living in Faulkner’s shadow. Full of personal insights, this memoir features unforgettable characters and exciting behind-the-scene moments that reveal much about modern American letters and the southern literary tradition. It is also a love story about a courtship and marriage, and an ode to Dean Faulkner Wells and her family.

Author : Melanie Benson Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108495318

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The Indian in American Southern Literature by Melanie Benson Taylor Pdf

Explores the abundance of Native American representations in US Southern literature.

Author : Nicholas Rombes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781441105059

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A Cultural Dictionary of Punk by Nicholas Rombes Pdf

Neither a dry-as-dust reference volume recycling the same dull facts nor a gushy, gossipy puff piece, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982 is a bold book that examines punk as a movement that is best understood by placing it in its cultural field. It contains myriad critical-listening descriptions of the sounds of the time, but also places those sounds in the context of history. Drawing on hundreds of fanzines, magazines, and newspapers, the book is-in the spirit of punk-an obsessive, exhaustively researched, and sometimes deeply personal portrait of the many ways in which punk was an artistic, cultural, and political expression of defiance. A Cultural Dictionary of Punk is organized around scores of distinct entries, on everything from Lester Bangs to The Slits, from Jimmy Carter to Minimalism, from 'Dot Dash' to Bad Brains. Both highly informative and thrillingly idiosyncratic, the book takes a fresh look at how the malaise of the 1970s offered fertile ground for punk-as well as the new wave, post-punk, and hardcore-to emerge as a rejection of the easy platitudes of the dying counter-culture. The organization is accessible and entertaining: short bursts of meaning, in tune with the beat of punk itself. Rombes upends notions that the story of punk can be told in a chronological, linear fashion. Meant to be read straight through or opened up and experienced at random, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk covers not only many of the well-known, now-legendary punk bands, but the obscure, forgotten ones as well. Along the way, punk's secret codes are unraveled and a critical time in history is framed and exclaimed. Visit the Cultural Dictionaryof Punk blog here.

Author : Melanie Benson Taylor
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820341880

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Reconstructing the Native South by Melanie Benson Taylor Pdf

In Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S. South--literature written by the descendants of tribes who evaded Removal and have maintained ties with their southeastern homelands. In so doing Taylor advances a provocative, even counterintuitive claim: that the U.S. South and its Native American survivors have far more in common than mere geographical proximity. Both cultures have long been haunted by separate histories of loss and nostalgia, Taylor contends, and the moments when those experiences converge in explicit and startling ways have yet to be investigated by scholars. These convergences often bear the scars of protracted colonial antagonism, appropriation, and segregation, and they share preoccupations with land, sovereignty, tradition, dispossession, subjugation, purity, and violence. Taylor poses difficult questions in this work. In the aftermath of Removal and colonial devastation, what remains--for Native and non-Native southerners--to be recovered? Is it acceptable to identify an Indian "lost cause"? Is a deep sense of hybridity and intercultural affiliation the only coherent way forward, both for the New South and for its oldest inhabitants? And in these newly entangled, postcolonial environments, has global capitalism emerged as the new enemy for the twenty-first century? Reconstructing the Native South is a compellingly original work that contributes to conversations in Native American, southern, and transnational American studies.

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015059535677

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Merchant Vessels of the United States... by United States. Coast Guard Pdf

Author : Michael Kreyling
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781578060450

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Inventing Southern Literature by Michael Kreyling Pdf

In Inventing Southern Literature Michael Kreyling casts a penetrating ray upon the traditional canon of southern literature and questions the modes by which it was created. He finds that it was, indeed, an invention rather than a creation. From their heyday to the present, Kreyling investigates the historical conditions under which literary and cultural critics have invented "the South" and how they have chosen its representations. Through his study of these choices, Kreyling argues that interested groups have shaped meanings that preserve "a South" as "the South."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2152 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : IND:30000099548160

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fred C. Hobson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820312754

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The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World by Fred C. Hobson Pdf

In The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World Fred Hobson offers a witty and engaging 'preliminary estimate' of some of the most prominent new figures in southern fiction. Although he discouvers no shortage of talent, he does find 'various and conflicting attitudes toward the southe and the contemporary world.' Especially concermed with the relationship of these new writers to their literary predecessors, he traces the continuity--or lack of continuity--or lack of continuity--of certain attitudes, fictional approaches, and even values that informed southern writing during its earlier flowering in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.