Southern Literature and Literary Theory Author:Jefferson Humphries (Editor) A collection of essays suggesting that a diversity of critical tools can now be used to explore the literature and culture of the South. The contributors emphasize the interrelation of literature, history and other human sciences rather than the traditional orthodox means of interpretation. — Mark Twain, William Wells Brown, and the problem of au... more »thority in new South writing / William H. Andrews The near landscape and the far : nature and human signification / James Applewhite James Dickey : from "The other" through The early motion / Harold Bloom Colonel Tate in attack and defense/ Gale H. Carrithers Fictional characterization as infinite regressive series : George Garrett's Strangers in the mirror / Fred Chappell The color purple : what feminism can learn from a Southern tradition / Gina Michelle Collins Reading between the lines : Fred Chappell's Castle Tzingal / Kate M. Cooper Critical creolization : Grace King and writing on French in the American South / Joan DeJean Power, sexuality, and race in All the king's men / Carl Freedman Zora Neale Hurston and the speakerly text / Henry Louis Gates. Remus Redux, or French classicism on the old plantation : La Fontaine and J.C. Harris / Jefferson Humphries The fathers : A postsouthern narrative reading / Michael Kreyling Edgar Allan Poe : The error of reading and the reading of error / Joseph G. Kronick Absalom, Absolom!: The outrage of writing / Alexandre Leupin The autograph of violence in Faulkner's Pylon / John T. Matthews Willie's wink and other doubtful paternal texts in the novels of Robert Penn Warren / Randolph Paul Runyon Addie's continued presence in Faulkner's As I lay dying / Patrick Samway, S.J A Dialogic hereafter : The sound and the fury and Absalom, Absalom! / Olga Scherer Peter Taylor's "Porte Cochere" : the geometry of generation / Simone Vauthier The framing of Charles W. Chesnutt : practical deconstruction in the Afro-American tradition / Craig Werner« less