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Modern American literature by Morley, Catherine, 1977-

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Mississippi : power of place

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The dandy in Irish and American Southern fiction : aristocratic drag by Crowell, Ellen

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Faulkner on the color line : the later novels by Towner, Theresa M.

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Global Faulkner : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006

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Claiming others : transracial adoption and national belonging by Jerng, Mark C.

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The secret country : decoding Jayne Anne Phillips' cryptic fiction by Robertson, Sarah, 1976-

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Catholicism and American borders in the Gothic literary imagination by O'Gorman, Farrell

Off the books : on literature and culture by Zane, J. Peder

Table of Contents: “…Doctorow: The Civil War in All Its Raging Glory -- Richard Slotkin: 11 Openings to Abe Lincoln -- Dan Brown: I've Cracked the Code of 'Da Vinci Code' Hypomania -- Haruki Murakami: A Writer Who Takes on the World -- Lydia Millet: A Daring Tale of a Lonely Heart -- Nicholson Baker: Bomb-Throwing Book Against Bush Fizzles -- Don DeLillo's Sound And Fury -- Tom Wolfe: Far from Empty, Not Quite Full -- Thomas Pynchon: Another Monument in Pynchonland -- Norman Mailer Celebrates Himself, Again -- Philip Roth for MVP -- Southern Writing Lives -- David Sedaris: Him Write Pretty -- Jonathan Miles: Author Keeps the Tales Pouring -- Jonathan Williams: Nosing Out Talent -- Reynolds Price: Rooted in His Native Soil -- Eudora Welty's Passing: A Death in the Family -- William Faulkner's Literary Legacy -- Fellowship of Southern Writers Seeks Future As Bright As Its Past -- Just the Facts? …”
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Modernism and food studies : politics, aesthetics, and the avant-garde

Table of Contents: “…Toklas cook book / Shannon Finck -- Globalization, nationalism, and the politics of provenance -- Invalid port: the politics of consumption in James Joyce's Ulysses / Matthew Hayward -- Modernism, primitivism, and food in James Agee's Cotton tenants / David Davis -- The encyclopedic culinary nationalism of Marcel Rouff's The Passionate Epicure / Philip Keel Geheber -- Joyce's Trade Wars: the politics of provenance in Finnegans Wake / Chrissie Van Mierlo -- Rationing, resistance, and revolt -- The raw and the rotten: food and revolt in early modernist film / Graig Uhlin -- Food for thought and scientific food rationing: Viktor Shklovsky's Case Against Censorship / Asiya Bulatova -- Potatoes and the political ecology of James Joyce's Dubliners / Jessica Martell -- Paddy, mangoes, and molasses scum: food regimes and the modernist novel in the Tale of Hansuli Turn / Brooke Stanley -- Imagination and exchange -- "A new confederacy" : the economy of southern hospitality in William Faulkner's Sanctuary / Carrie Tippen -- Here there will be no unhappiness: chocolate and Langston Hughes' Utopian Impulse / Adam Fajardo.…”
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100 Must-Read Classic Novels. by Rennison, Nick

Table of Contents: “…COVER; TITLEPAGE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ABOUT THIS BOOK; INTRODUCTION; A-Z OF ENTRIES; LOUISA MAY ALCOTT; JANE AUSTEN; HONORÃ#x89; DE BALZAC; ARNOLD BENNETT; ELIZABETH BOWEN; CHARLOTTE BRONTÃ#x8B;; EMILY BRONTÃ#x8B;; SAMUEL BUTLER; ALBERT CAMUS; LEWIS CARROLL; WILLA CATHER; MIGUEL DE CERVANTES; ANTON CHEKHOV; KATE CHOPIN; WILKIE COLLINS; JOSEPH CONRAD; STEPHEN CRANE; DANIEL DEFOE; CHARLES DICKENS; BENJAMIN DISRAELI; ALFRED DÃ#x96;BLIN; FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY; ALEXANDRE DUMAS; GEORGE ELIOT; WILLIAM FAULKNER; HENRY FIELDING; F. SCOTT FITZGERALD; GUSTAVE FLAUBERT; THEODORE FONTANE; FORD MADOX FORD; E.M. …”
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The difference within : feminism and critical theory

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Fifty years of Hemingway criticism by Hays, Peter L., 1938-

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Faulkner and material culture : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004

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Sons and daughters of self-made men : improvising gender, place, nation in American literature by Carden, Mary Paniccia

Hemingway, race, and art : bloodlines and the color line by Dudley, Marc K., 1971-

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Conversations with Jay Parini

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American gothic : new interventions in a national narrative

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The American short story handbook by Nagel, James

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald; Suggestions for Further Reading; Ernest Hemingway; Suggestions for Further Reading; John Steinbeck; Suggestions for Further Reading; William Faulkner; Suggestions for Further Reading; Jamaica Kincaid.…”
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Waging war on war : peacefighting in American literature by Mariani, Giorgio, 1954-

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Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature by Norman, Brian, 1977-

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Conversations with Barry Hannah by Hannah, Barry

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Reading rape : the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 by Sielke, Sabine, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…: styles and hyperboles of seduction, rape, and incest in Djuna Barnes's Ryder -- "That little hot ball inside you that screams": rape's resistance to representation, the resistance to rape, and the transgression of boundaries in William Faulkner's Sanctuary -- "Not what one did to women": enacting projections and constructing the racial border in Richard Wright's Native Son -- Fighting "forced relationship": rape and manslaughter in Ann Petry's The Street -- Voicing sexual violence, repoliticizing rape: post modernist narratives of sexuality and power. …”
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History, metaphors, fables : a Hans Blumenberg reader by Blumenberg, Hans

Table of Contents: “…The Mythos and Ethos of America in the Work of William Faulkner (1958)…”
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Bootlegger of the soul : the literary legacy of William Kennedy

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Bearing witness to African American literature : validating and valorizing its authority, authenticity, and agency by Bell, Bernard W.

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Sons and daughters of self-made men : improvising gender, place, nation in American literature by Carden, Mary Paniccia

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Darwin in Atlantic cultures : evolutionary visions of race, gender, and sexuality

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The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story

Table of Contents: “…Elliott -- John Fante -- James T. Farrell -- William Faulkner -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Richard Ford -- Mary Gaitskill -- William H. …”
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100 American crime writers / One hundred American crime writers

Table of Contents: “…Eberhart -- James Ellroy -- Janet Evanovich -- William Faulkner -- Kenneth Fearing -- Rudolph Fisher -- Kinky Friedman -- Jacques Futrelle -- Erle Stanley Gardner -- William Campbell Gault -- David Goodis -- Sue Grafton -- Davis Grubb -- Frank Gruber -- Dashiell Hammett -- Thomas Harris -- Carl Hiaasen -- Patricia Highsmith -- George V. …”
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Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation : Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections. by Vechinski, Matthew James

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Minding the South by Reed, John Shelton

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Elvis Presley : a southern life by Williamson, Joel

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The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. / Literature

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois -- Wilma Dykeman -- Clyde Edgerton -- Ralph Ellison -- Augusta Jane Evans -- Percival Everett -- William Faulkner -- Nikky Finney -- Zelda Fitzgerald -- John Gould Fletcher -- Horton Foote -- Shelby Foote -- Jesse Hill Ford -- Richard Ford -- John Fox, Jr. -- William Price Fox -- John Hope Franklin -- Tom Franklin -- Charles Frazier -- Ernest J. …”
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Southern bound : a Gulf coast journalist on books, writers, and literary pilgrimages of the heart by Sledge, John S. (John Sturdivant), 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Famously, It Seems -- Mississippi's Victorian Treasures Get Their Due -- Alabama's Architecture Gets Some Overdue Respect -- William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha -- Matrana Shows Pride and Ruin of Plantations -- Historian Upends Ideas on American Architecture -- Scholar-Town Houses Have Many Tales to Tell -- Legacy Presents a Detailed Look at Rayfield's Work -- Fallingwater Study Cuts Myths, Affirms Merits -- The Architect of America -- New Orleans Takes Shape in an Architect's Memoir -- Stumbling on a Fossil of a Southern Dinosaur -- McMurtry's Hometown a Paradise for Collectors -- Drama of Story Comes Alive in Monroeville -- A Night in the Library -- Finding Cahaba: New Book Rekindles Fascination with Alabama's First Capital -- Looking Past Midnight -- A Literary Ramble through Old New Orleans -- Oxford, Mississippi: A Literary Profile -- A Small City of Literary Giants: Greenville, Mississippi -- Visit to Library Is a Return to Childhood -- Images from the Literary Side of Paris, with a Personal Touch -- Walter-Inspired Dream an Affirmation of Creativity -- A Tale Worthy of the Centuries: Looking into Chapman's Iliad -- Plato's Ancient Words Inspire the Modern Mind -- Old Story, New Life: Heaney Makes Epic Worth the Wait -- Decline and Fall Stands Test of Time -- Last of the Mohicans Was First of Its Kind -- Omoo a Showcase for Melville's Lighter Side -- Slowly, Beautifully: That's How the Cookie Crumbles -- Revisiting a Classic at the Water's Edge -- Joseph Conrad's Typhoon Shows Power of Storm -- One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Pleasure -- Pride and Prejudice Run Deep in Memoir -- Old Soldier Sahib a Rare Chronicle of Bygone Empire -- Cather's Look Westward Broke New Literary Ground -- Shane Stands as Classic of Western Genre -- Book behind Classic Wayne Film Still Holds Up -- Pacific Battleground Is More Than a Memory -- A Shadowed Friendship: Book Looks Back on Broken Bond between Two Powerful Writers -- Quirky Italian Novel Shines in Recent Reissue -- "Just an adventurer": An Aid Worker's Strange Path -- Cuba in Mind Brings Island Near Enough to Touch -- Events Make Brick Lane a Timely Volume -- Long Way Gone a Tribute to Human Spirit -- My Forbidden Face Drives Home Sufferings of Women under Taliban -- Márquez Classic Still Rewards Reader's Effort -- Istanbul, Not Constantinople, Gets the Works from a Nobel-Winning Native Son -- Iconic AK47 Assault Rifle Subject of Far-Ranging Biography -- Plagiarism Charges Pull Prize-Winner from Shelves -- Alexandria's Library Rises from the Ashes-but Fires Still Burn -- George and Lennie Feeling the Squeeze -- Proposed Book Ban Deserves Firm Rebuttal -- America Flap Puts Mississippi in Spotlight -- Writer Takes Clear-Eyed Look at Battle Flag's Past and Present -- Without Sanctuary Confronts an Ugly Past -- Poe Folks Perturbed by Graveyard Guest -- Breach of Faith Offers Incisive Critiques -- An Open Letter to Louisiana's Governor -- School's Switch Alarms Book Lovers -- Old Writings Preserve Sense of Beaches' Beauty -- My First Gun Became a Boy's Rite of Passage -- The Reader: A Quieter Side of Michael Jackson -- Politics Aside, Spanish Opens Rich Literary Terrain -- In Changing Times, It's Hard to Turn the Page -- Southern Writers Save the Style for the Page -- Oscar Wilde: One Fine Figure of a Writer -- Everybody Has a Story, but Who Wants to Read It? …”
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