Damaged lives : Southern & Caribbean narrative from Faulkner to Naipaul / Jeffrey J. Folks.

Author/creator Folks, Jeffrey J., 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Peter Lang, ©2005.
Description137 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
American fiction--Southern States. --History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric)--History. --20th century.
Southern States--Intellectual life. --1865-.
Caribbean Area--Intellectual life.
Southern States--In literature.
Caribbean Area--In literature.

Contents Memory believes before knowing remembers : Faulkner, Canetti, and survival, reprinted from PLL, Papers on Language and Literature 39.3 (2003) -- Ethics adrift : Faulkner's If I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Faulkner's requiem for the past -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's dream of the South -- James Agee's radical honesty -- Wise blood : Flannery O'Connor's vision of a broken world -- The redemption of ordinary delight : Mary Hood's Familiar heat -- Naipaul's grief : The enigma of arrival.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [131]-133) and index.
LCCN 2005006862
ISBN0820478768 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS261 .F644 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold