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Theodore Pratt (1901-1969) was the author of fifteen books that depict the Sunshine State, earning him the informal title of "Literary Laureate of Florida" in the mid-twentieth century. He portrayed the culture of south Florida, especially in his "Florida Trilogy"--which includes his most famous boo... Read More about Theodore Pratt: A Florida Writer's Life

William Faulkner seems to have sprung a full-blown genius from a remote part of the American South. Yet Faulkner spent much of his life striving to emulate and overshadow - both as a writer and as a person - his great-grandfather and namesake, Colonel William Falkner, a dueling, railroad-building, s... Read More about Following Faulkner: The Critical Response to Yoknapatawpha's Architect (Literary Criticism in Perspective #73)

Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States--the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, ... Read More about Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies (Southern Literary Studies)

In Faulkner's Imperialism, Taylor Hagood explores two staples of Faulkner's world: myth and place. Using an interdisciplinary approach to examine economic, sociological, and political factors in Faulkner's writing, he applies postcolonial theory, cultural materialism, and the work of the New Southe... Read More about Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth (Southern Literary Studies)

In Faulkner's Imperialism, Taylor Hagood explores two staples of Faulkner's world: myth and place. Using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the economic, sociological, and political factors in Faulkner's writing, he applies postcolonial theory, cultural materialism, and the work of the New Sou... Read More about Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth (Southern Literary Studies)