Georgia Voices Volume1: Fiction by HughRuppersburg Hardcover, 600 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5236-7, ISBN: 0-8203-5236-5
"Since the early nineteenth century, Georgia has produced an impressive number of distinguished fiction writers, from Joel Chandler Harris, Sidney Lanier, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers to such present-day voices as Alice Walker, James Dickey, and Pat Conroy.Containing thirty-nine stories and excerpts from novels, this first volume reveals a literary legacy as rich as any the country has produced. Humorous and tragic, nostalgic ..."
"Georgia Voices Volume 3, Poetry, is the final anthology in a distinctive multivolume set of works by Georgia's most gifted writers. Offering selections from thirty-nine poets, Georgia Voices Volume 3 presents a variety of literary and cultural traditions. While the poems reflect the places and times of their origins, they also reveal the impact of today's global society in their diverse and contrasting themes. With myriad styles and voi ..."
The Hawk and the Sun(Reprint) A Novel (Brown Thrasher Books Ser.) by Byron Herbert Reece, HughRuppersburg Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1656-7, ISBN: 0-8203-1656-3
"Set in the small-town, pre-civil rights South, "The Hawk and the Sun" is the story of one day in the life of Dandelion, a physically impaired man who is the sole black resident in the town of Tilden.Years before, the birth of a mixed-race child to a white prostitute had precipitated an outpouring of hatred against Tilden's black citizens, all of whom but Dandelion had been driven from town. In this atmosphere of smoldering self-righteou ..."
"First published in 1950, Better a Dinner of Herbs is a compellingly dramatic tale of twisted, often violent human relationships. Taking its title from a biblical passage dealing with the power of love and hate within a household, the novel counterbalances its grim narrative with a poetic prose that evokes a reverence for the rhythm of the seasons and the continuity of life.Byron Herbert Reece situates the story in the isolated hills of ..."
"physician, humorist, storyteller, and best-selling novelist, Ferrol Sams is the
author of seven books. Most notable is his trilogy of novels in which an eccentric
and quixotic hero, Porter Osborne Jr., mirrors Sams's own Georgia boyhood. All
of his works are rooted in the oral traditions of southern humor and folklore. With
engaging and graceful prose, Sams's fiction celebrates love of the land, the
changing southern landscape, and ..."
""Georgia Voices Volume 3, Poetry," is the final anthology in a distinctive multivolume set of works by Georgia's most gifted writers. Offering selections from thirty-nine poets, "Georgia Voices Volume 3" presents a variety of literary and cultural traditions. While the poems reflect the places and times of their origins, they also reveal the impact of today's global society in their diverse and contrasting themes. With myriad styles and ..."
"The second volume of "Georgia Voices"--a three-volume anthology highlighting the achievements of Georgia writers in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry--is a fascinating collection of essays, letters, diary entries, and speeches. Including selections by African Americans, women, and Native Americans, the anthology reflects the diversity of voices and experiences throughout the history of the state.Spanning more than two and a half centuries ..."
Georgia Voices Volume1: Fiction (v. 1) by Hugh M. Ruppersburg Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1433-4, ISBN: 0-8203-1433-1
"Since the early nineteenth century, Georgia has produced an impressive number of distinguished fiction writers, from Joel Chandler Harris, Sidney Lanier, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers to such present-day voices as Alice Walker, James Dickey, and Pat Conroy.Containing thirty-nine stories and excerpts from novels, this first volume reveals a literary legacy as rich as any the country has produced. Humorous and tragic, nostalgic ..."
"A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past 200 years. Sets the short story in context, paying attention to the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principles Contributes to the ongoing redefinition of the American canon, with close attention to the achievements of women writers as well as such important genres as the ghost story and detective fiction Embraces d ..."
"Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia's Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and Sherman's March to the Sea changed the cour ..."
"A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past two centuries. Written by leading critics in the field, and edited by two major scholars, it explores a wide range of writers, from Edgar Allen Poe and Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Charles Chesnutt at the end of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth the focus is on such important Modern writers as Ernest Hemingway, Willi ..."
"Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by ChoiceSelected as an Outstanding Reference Source by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library AssociationThere are many anthologies of southern literature, but this is the first companion. Neither a survey of masterpieces nor a biographical sourcebook, The Companion to Southern Literature treats every conceivable topic found in southern writing from the pre-Columbian ..."
"INTRODUCTION When Faulkner began Light in August, his seventh novel, in
1931, he had come into his maturity as a writer. Not only had he finished
Mosquitoes and Soldiers' Pay, his two apprentice novels, but also Flags in the
Dust (in 1927), The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), and
Sanctuary (1g31)—the last three ranking among his greatest works. He had also
completed several of his best stories, including “Red Leav ..."
"Hugh M. Ruppersburg examines the use of narrative viewpoint and structure in four representative novels by William Faulkner: Light in August, Pylon, Requiem for a Nun, and Absalom, Absalom! In his discussion of these four works he refers frequently, and often at length, to Faulkner's other novels and stories, so that the book offers a comprehensive examination of the narrative principle that underlie Faulkner's literary achievement.Rupp ..."
"Explaining the world of William Faulkner's "Light in August" is the primary goal of this glossary. Like other books in this series, it explains, identifies, and comments on many elements that a reader may find unfamiliar or difficult. These include the basic features of Faulkner's fictional town of Jefferson and Yoknapatawpha County, colloquialisms, dialects, folk customs and sayings, farm implements, biblical verses, and geographic and ..."
Reading Faulkner Light in August by HughRuppersburg 340 Pages, Published 2009 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-0033-6, ISBN: 1-4968-0033-8
"Explaining the world of William Faulkner's Light in August is the primary goal of this glossary. Like other books in this series, it explains, identifies, and comments on many elements that a reader may find unfamiliar or difficult."
"The myth of America--the gap between American ideals and the actualities of American life--is a central and controlling metaphor in the works of Robert Penn Warren. Ranging across Warren's distinguished sixty-five year career, Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination identifies the concerns that stem from Warren's vision of American history as a struggle to restore the lost ideals of the founding fathers and shows how they resona ..."
"Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia's Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and Sherman's March to the Sea changed the cour ..."
"The second volume of Georgia Voices―a three-volume anthology highlighting the achievements of Georgia writers in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry―is a fascinating collection of essays, letters, diary entries, and speeches. Including selections by African Americans, women, and Native Americans, the anthology reflects the diversity of voices and experiences throughout the history of the state.Spanning more than two and a half centuries―fro ..."