Southern Excursions,9780807128503

Southern Excursions

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ISBN13: 9780807128503
ISBN10: 0807128503
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher(s): Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary

More than fifty of the best essays, reviews, and other short pieces spanning George Garrett's fifty-year career as a prolific and internationally renowned author, teacher, editor, and critic. Advertising.

Author Biography

George Garrett is Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

Preface, xiii
ESSAYS
Anarchy and Family: A Few Words About the Southern Tradition,
3(4)
A Summoning of Place,
7(22)
An American Family History (We Eavesdrop While a Family Tells
I Is Private Stories): Review of The Hinterlands by Robert Morgan,
29(6)
A Life Without End: Two Novels About World War II by William Hoffman,
35(10)
Liberty and the Southern Tradition,
45(8)
Part Scam: The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture,
53(7)
A Voice for the Voiceless: Review of My Drowning by Jim Grimily,
60(6)
Jesse Hill Ford's Play,
66(5)
William Price Fox's Dixiana Moon,
71(6)
Forest of the Night: A Declaration of Independence,
77(9)
The Man Who Wrote the Movie: Faulkner and the Public Arts,
86(8)
William Goyen's "Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt,"
94(4)
New Market: The Cost and Waste of the War,
98(4)
The Death of Regional Writing,
102(6)
Soil of Hope: New and Other Voices in Southern Fiction for the Nineties,
108(3)
The Ordways by William Humphrey,
111(5)
Cassandra Singing by David Madden,
116(3)
Crime and Punishment in Kansas: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood,
119(16)
SHORT REVIEWS
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover, edited by
Kevin Berland, Jan Kirsten Gilliam, and Kenneth A. Lockridge,
135(3)
The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of
George Washington's Times by Charles Royster,
138(3)
A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the
White Christian South by Eugene D. Genovese,
141(3)
"No Wonder People Got Crazy As They Grew Up": Bastard Out
of Carolina by Dorothy Allison,
144(3)
Eneas Africanus by Harry Stillwell Edwards,
147(3)
A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry
by Fred Chappell,
150(4)
Gaining a Foothold in Old Jamestown with a Sovereign's Tightly
Held Funds: Big Chief Elizabeth by Giles Milton,
154(3)
The Sharp Teeth of Love by Doris Betts,
157(4)
The Big Ballad Jamboree by Donald Davidson,
161(3)
White People: Stories by Allan Gurganus,
164(3)
It's True South with a Sense of Humor: The Sharpshooter Blues
by Lewis Nordan,
167(3)
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price,
170(2)
The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price,
172(4)
A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan,
176(3)
Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light by Madison Jones,
179(3)
The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy,
182(3)
Celebration by Mary Lee Settle,
185(3)
Wolfe in Wolfe's Clothing: 0 Lost: A Story of the Buried Life by
Thomas Wolfe and To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe
Maxwell Perkins Correspondence, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli
and Park Bucker,
188(3)
Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life by Hubert H. McAlexander,
191(4)
Bow to the Bull's-Eye: To the White Sea by James Dickey,
195(3)
A Letter from Earth,
198(7)
INTRODUCTIONS
Introducing Wendell Berry,
205(3)
Introducing Reynolds Price,
208(2)
Foreword to The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones by Jesse Hill Ford,
210(5)
Introduction to So Red the Rose by Stark Young,
215(8)
Foreword to The Long Roll by Mary Johnston,
223(6)
Foreword to Cease Firing by Mary Johnston,
229(7)
Foreword to Dream Garden: The Poetic Vision of Fred Chappell,
edited by Patrick Bizarro,
236(3)
Introduction to the Modern Library Edition of Snopes,
239(8)
INTERVIEWS
Life into Art: A Conversation with David Huddle,
247(19)
Buzzards and Dodos: George Core (Editor of the Sewanee Review)
Talks with George Garrett About the Quarterlies,
266(9)
An Interview with Paxton Davis (1925-1994),
275(10)
THREE TRIBUTES
William Goyen,
285(3)
Peter Taylor,
288(2)
Paxton Davis,
290(5)
EPILOGUE
Southern Literature Here and Now,
295(8)
Acknowledgments, 303

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