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Southern Hyperboles - Metafigurative Strategies of Narration (Hardcover)
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Southern Hyperboles - Metafigurative Strategies of Narration (Hardcover)
Series: Southern Literary Studies
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In Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration,
Micha? Choi?ski confronts the often paradoxical and excessive
elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative
modes and representation strategies in works produced from the
early 1930s to the late 1950s. With renewed attention to renderings
of the gothic and grotesque, Choi?ski argues that modernist
literature from the U.S. South often deploys the trope of
hyperbole, which escalates contrasts and disrupts the sense of the
normal. By focusing on how writers processed the South via
narratives of hyperbolic excess, Southern Hyperboles explores a
mode of comprehension forged from the tensions of a segregated,
patriarchal society driven by racial and social decorum. Moving
chronologically, Choi?ski traces distinct manifestations of
hyperbolic metalogic in the works of seven authors: Katherine Anne
Porter, William Faulkner, Lillian Smith, Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin,
Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, and Harper Lee. The mode of
hyperbole identified by Choi?ski relies on a clash of opposites,
along with the rapid intensification of disharmonious ideas pushed
to extremes, leading to an ultimate break in established decorum.
The shock produced by hyperbole generates a momentary state of
confusion that soon dissipates, allowing recipients to reach a new
understanding of their surrounding world. Melding an innovative use
of rhetorical theory with fine-grained analysis of literary texts,
Southern Hyperboles elucidates contradictory and interlocking
issues related to memory, social trauma, grotesquerie, and troubled
mythologies that permeate the U.S. South.
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