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Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists of the South - A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Hardcover, New):... Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists of the South - A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Hardcover, New)
Michael A. Bain, Joseph M. Flora
R2,572 Discovery Miles 25 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the early 20th century to the present, Southern literary talent has flourished. The newer poets, dramatists, essayists, and novelists of this region often use their writings to explore the changing social values of the South, while also drawing upon traditional Southern values and culture. This reference work is a guide to the writings of 50 contemporary Southern poets, dramatists, essayists, and novelists. Many of the authors profiled in this volume have established themselves as writers of lasting significance. However, the book also profiles the careers and work of authors who are emerging only now as masters of their art. Each chapter in this book is devoted to a single author, and arranged alphabetically for the reader's convenience. Each is written by an expert on the author, and includes a biographical sketch, a discussion of major themes, a survey of criticism, and a bibliography of works by and about the author. An introductory essay overviews modern Southern writing, and a selected, general bibliography concludes the work.

Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South - A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Hardcover): Joseph M. Flora, Robert Bain Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South - A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Joseph M. Flora, Robert Bain
R2,543 Discovery Miles 25 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The extraordinary flowering of Southern literary talent in the early twentieth century, the Southern Literary Renascence, has continued virtually unabated, showing increasing vitality in recent decades. These newer fiction writers, poets, dramatists, and journalists reflect in their work the changing social conditions of the South while also presenting traditional Southern values and qualities. Their astonishing output constitutes a phenomenon worthy of being called a Second Southern Literary Renascence. Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain, editors of the acclaimed Fifty Southern Writers before 1900 and Fifty Southern Writers after 1900, found that they could only begin to suggest the continuing abundance and significance of Southern writing in the latter volume. Retaining the same format, they have developed two new volumes for the contemporary period. The first, focusing on fiction, comprises forty-nine talented novelists, including such popular figures as Pat Conroy, Gail Godwin, T. R. Pearson, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker. The companion volume, (Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook forthcoming from Greenwood Press) will cover primarily poets, playwrights, and essayists as well as fiction writers who have made major contributions to these other genres. The essays, written by scholars and critics, present in each case a biographical sketch, an analysis of the writer's style and major themes, an assessment of reviews and scholarship, a chronological list of works, and a bibliography of selected criticism. Considered individually and comparatively and with attention to the editors' introductory essay, these bio-bibliographical studiesclearly demonstrate the state and strength of Southern letters.

Fifty Southern Writers After 1900 - A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Hardcover): Michael A. Bain, Robin B. Brigman, Joseph M.... Fifty Southern Writers After 1900 - A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Michael A. Bain, Robin B. Brigman, Joseph M. Flora, Susan McClanahan
R2,558 Discovery Miles 25 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

.,."The scholarship is meticulous and the essays are lucid and perceptive..." Library Journal

Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900 - A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Hardcover): Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900 - A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora
R2,550 Discovery Miles 25 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection deserves a long review in order to get the attention it has earned. But how would a reviewer do rounded justice in, say, five hundred words to fifty entries by fifty different scholar-critics on Southerners whose careers ended before 1900 or thereabouts'? Furthermore, each entry was required to follow a five-part pattern: a biographical sketch, a discussion of major themes, an assessment of the scholarship . . . a chronological list of the author's works, and a bibliography of selected criticism.' That pattern reinforces a reference-work effect that the precise and experienced editors intended. Only a pedant will quible--yet will also regulary use the book and send students to it. It will outlast any reviewer now alive. "American Literature"

A companion volume to "Fifty Southern Writers After 1900," this collection focuses on the work of writers whose careers ended before or about 1900, whose works are often anthologized, and whose writing figures prominently in the history of Southern letters. Each essay, written by a specialist in the field, contains five parts: a biographical sketch, a discussion of the author's major themes, an assessment of the scholarship on the author's works, a chronological list of works, and a bibliography of selected criticism. The selected essays treat the individual writers in substantial detail and offer a fresh attempt to estimate the achievements of the authors included as well as a valuable assessment of the secondary work and scholarship to date.

Southern Writers - A New Biographical Dictionary (Paperback): Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel Southern Writers - A New Biographical Dictionary (Paperback)
Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel
R824 Discovery Miles 8 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Biographical sketches of 378 writers associated with the American South are included in this important new reference work. Compiled by 172 scholars, these summaries--many of which are not readily available elsewhere--provide in their total effect a brief history of southern literature from colonial times to the present.

The volume is, in part, a companion to A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., ed.), a work that has become a standard reference for anyone seriously interested in the literature of the South. With its wealth of essential biographical information on the region's writers, both major and minor, this new guide will take its place alongside that earlier volume as an invaluable aid to the study of southern writing. Especially useful will be complete listings of the first printings of the books by each writer provided after the respective summaries.

Included as contributors of the individual biographical summaries are most of the better-known scholars of southern literature, plus a number of promising young scholars. The editors, each of whom is an outstanding scholar in southern literary studies, are:

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