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Stories of the Modern South(Updated)
Revised Edition
by Ben Forkner, Patrick Samway, Patrick H. Samway
Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 1995 by Penguin Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-024705-3, ISBN: 0-14-024705-X

"Paperback. Pub Date: 1995 Publisher: Penguin Originally published in 1957. The Flower Drum Song was a groundeaking work of withpopular literature An immediate bestseller it inspired the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical This charming bittersweet tale of romance and the powerful bonds of family tells the story of Wang Ta. who wants what every young American man wants: a great career and a woman to love. Living in San Francisco's Ch ..."






Faulkner and Idealism
Perspectives from Paris
by Michel Gresset, Patrick Samway
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2008 by University Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-185-9, ISBN: 1-60473-185-0

"The essays in this volume are indicative of the scope of international scholarship concerning the works of William Faulkner. They reflect particularly the distinctive and somewhat varying views that American and European scholars have of the Nobel Prize author.The nine papers included, a representative sampling of those delivered at the First International Colloquium on William Faulkner, articulate the relationship between Faulkner and ..."






Signposts in a Strange Land(1st Edition)
Essays
by Walker Percy, Patrick Samway
Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2000 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-25419-3, ISBN: 0-312-25419-9

"CANTICLE. FOR. LEIBOWITZ. 1 his book, A Canticle for Leibowitz, is recommended, but not without certain qualifications. That is to say, I would not want my recorded enthusiasm for it and the fact that I have read it several times to be taken as a conventional literary ploy to call attention to an underrated work of literature. Thus, I am not setting up as a Malcolm ... It is also of more moment than the better-known sci-fi futurist ..."






Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton, The(1st Edition)
by Jonathan Montaldo, Ed. Patrick Samway, Robert Giroux
Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-268-01786-6, ISBN: 0-268-01786-7

"From the time they first met as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the mid-1930s, the noted editor Robert Giroux (1914 2008) and the Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton (1915 1968) became friends. "The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton" capture their personal and professional relationship, extending from the time of the publication of Merton's 1948 best-selling spiritual autobiography, "The Seven Storey M ..."






Stories of the Old South(Reprint)
Revised Edition
by Ben Forkner, Patrick Samway
Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 1995 by Penguin Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-024707-7, ISBN: 0-14-024707-6

"Ben Forkner, Patrick Samway. INTRODUCTION. Stories of the Old South covers a century of Southern short fiction, from roughly the 1830s on up through the early 1930s. The later dates, of course, point to the first full wave of the remarkable creative tide of Southern writing that even today, almost three generations later, gives little sign of faltering. The 1830s, however, mark perhaps an even more important transition in the histo ..."






Stories of the Old South
Southern Fiction From Some of Our Greatest Storytellers
by Benjamin Forkner, Patrick Samway, William Faulkner, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe
Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 1989 by Penguin Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-012006-6, ISBN: 0-14-012006-8

"Mining the same terrain as in their previous collection, Stories of the Modern South, Forkner and Samway turn their attention to an earlier era. Most of the stories in this collection were written in the 19th century."






A New Reader of the Old South(1st Edition)
Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Essays, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs : 1820-1920
by Ben Forkner, Patrick Samway
Paperback, 644 Pages, Published 1991 by Peachtree Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-56145-020-6, ISBN: 1-56145-020-0

"The literary Canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. The literary canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. Editors Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, S. J. have selected from the most original and lasting works of nineteenth-century Southern writing (1820-1920) to reflect the full range of the ..."






Signposts in a Strange Land
by Walker Percy, Patrick H. Samway, Percy Walker
Paperback, 428 Pages, Published 1992 by The Noonday Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52345-9, ISBN: 0-374-52345-2

"At the time of his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected non-fiction. Now assembled here, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of this legendary writer."






Educating Darfur Refugees(1st Edition)
A Jesuit's Efforts in Chad
by Patrick Samway
Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Scranton Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-157-8, ISBN: 1-58966-157-5

"As a result of the genocide in Darfur, tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee Sudan and seek refuge in overcrowded, desolate desert camps along the Chadian border. Educating Darfur Refugees is the unforgettable journal of a Jesuit priest who spent nine months in 2004 and 2005 working in three of those refugee camps. Samway’s diaries, deeply informed by his perspective as a religious scholar but as engrossing as any page-tu ..."






A Modern Southern Reader
Major Stories, Drama, Poetry, Essays, Interviews, and Reminiscences from the Twentieth-Century South
by Ben Forkner, Patrick Samway
Hardcover, 736 Pages, Published 1986 by Peachtree Pub Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-934601-01-6, ISBN: 0-934601-01-1

"This anthology represents the best work of important Southern writers of the twentieth century - from the 1920s (and the beginning of the Southern Renaissance) to the present. The volume includes examples of fiction, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences. Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, who edited the highly acclaimed STORIES OF THE MODERN SOUTH, draw from the works of such greats as Ernest Gaines, William Faulkner, C. ..."






Southern Writers(1st Edition)
A New Biographical Dictionary (Southern Literary Studies)
by Amber Vogel, Joseph M. Flora, Bryan Albin Giemza, Lisa Abney, Gilbert Allen, Regina Ammon, Daniel Anderson, Laurence Avery, John Batteiger, Barbara Bennett, Bruce, Bryan Giemza, Gail Galloway Adams, Timothy D. Adams, Alan T. Belsches, William L. Andrews, Robert G. Anthony, Tomeiko R. Ashford, James L. Baggett, Bruce E. Baker, Kenneth Huntress Baldwin, John E. Bassett, Margaret D. Bauer, Brian J. Benson, John T. Bickley, David Bjelajac, Karen C. Blansfield, Lynn Bloom, Joseph Blotner, Laura J. Bloxham, Kristina D. Bobo, Thomas Bonner Jr., Anne M. Boyle, George Brosi, Jackson R. Bryer, Harriette Cuttino Buchanan, Louis J. Budd, Rebecca Roxburgh Butler, Mark Canada, Thomas M. Carlson, Brian Carpenter, Virginia Spencer Carr, David A. Case, Katherine Clark, Donna Coates, Martha E. Cook, Stephen Cooper, Alice R. Cotten, Norlisha F. Crawford, Valerie Matthews Crawford, David A. Davis, Cynthia B. Denham, Suzanne Disheroon-Green, Susan V. Donaldson, Thomas E. Douglass, Joyce Dyer, Julia Leigh Eichelberger, Daniel J. Ennis, Allison R. Ensor, Barbara C. Ewell, John J. Fenstermaker, Mary Anne Ferguson, Peter J. Flora, Jane S. Gabin, George Garrett, Nicholas Graham, Daniel Grassian, Richard Giannone, Maryanne M. Gobble, Sharon L. Gravett, J. Lee Greene, Michael D. Green, Jason Nephi Hall, Deborah George Hardy, Tracy Hargreaves, William Harmon, Margaret Mills Harper, M. Suzan Harrison, Maria P. Hebert, Harris W. Henderson, R. Sterling Hennis, Barbara Herman, Scott Hicks, John T. Hiers, Samuel S. Hill, Bert Hitchcock, Fred Hobson, Katherine C. Hodgin, Thomas Alan Holmes, George Hovis, Karen Jean Hunt, Clifford Huntington Jr., John Idol, M. Thomas Inge, John C. Inscoe, John Jackson, Lawrence Jackson, David K. Jeffrey, Sara Andrews Johnston, Robert E. Jones, Whit Jones, Tessa Joseph, Nancy Carol Joyner, Julie Kane, J. Gerald Kennedy, Gary Kerley, Kimball King, Lovalerie King, Michael Kreyling, Susie Scifres Kuilan, John Kwist Jr., Barbara Ladd, Inez Hollander Lake, John Lang, Andrew B. Leiter, George S. Lensing, Theresa Lloyd, Michael A. Lofaro, Thomas L. Long, John Lowe, Lucinda Hardwick Mackethan, Randy Mackin, Donald L. Madison, Carol S. Manning, Julian Mason, Hubert Horton Mcalexander, Robert L. Mcdonald, Michael Mcfee, Kathryn B. Mckee, Shannon Mckenna, Melissa Graham Meeks, H. Collin Messor, Mildred R. Mickle, John Carl Miller, Randall Miller, Joseph R. Millichap, Jerry Leath Mills, Douglas Mitchell, Keith Mitchell, Wayne Mixon, Jeff Mock, Rayburn S. Moore, Ruth Moose, William Moss, Matthew D. Mutter, Elsa Nettels, René Pol Nevils, Jeanne R. Nostrandt, Farrell O'gorman, Ted Olson, Amanda Page, Randall G. Patterson, Tony Peacock, Carolyn Perry, Patsy Perry, Robert L. Phillips, Edward Piacentino, John R. Pfeiffer, Wayne J. Pond, Tara Powell, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, Verbie Lovorn Prevost, Allen Pridgen, Paul D. Quigley, M. Kevin Quinn, Julius Rowan Raper, Gary Richards, Jeffrey H. Richards, Milton H. Rickels, Diane Roberts, Mark Allen Roberts, Terry Roberts, Anne E. Rowe, Richard D. Rust, Patrick Samway, Mark A. Sanders, Patricia A. Schechter, Matthew Scialdone, Nancy Gray Schoonmaker, Richard R. Schramm, Charles Scruggs, Dorothy Scura, Lynne Shackelford, Frank W. Shelton, Bland Simpson, Ethel C. Simpson, Bryan C. Sinche, Merrill M. Skaggs, Bess S. Spangler, Matthew Spangler, Derrick Spradlin, Peter L. Staffel, Victor Strandberg, Welford Dunaway Taylor, Victor L. Thacker, Janice J. Thompson, Bailey Thomson, Chad Trevitte, Rob Trucks, Edward L. Tucker, Daniel Cross Turner, Jane Gentry, Kathryn Vanspanckeren, Juliana Gray, Barbara A. Wade, Harry L. Watson, Linda Welden, Mary Weaks-Baxter, Amy E. Weldon, Sean H. Wells, Robert M. West, Tom Williams, Mary Ann Wimsatt, Mark Royden Winchell, Harold Woodell, Emily Wright, Anne Zahlan, Gary Phillip Zola, Joseph Kelly, Damon Sauve, Jon C. Miller, Philip D. Beidler
Hardcover, 468 Pages, Published 2006 by Louisiana State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3123-7, ISBN: 0-8071-3123-7

"This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor’s place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries—nearly double the earlier edition’s—written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works pr ..."






The Companion to Southern Literature(1st Edition)
Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs (Southern Literary Studies)
by Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick Mackethan, Laurence Avery, Barbara Baker, Gwen Ashburn, William Barney, Debra Beilke, William Berry, Todd W. Taylor, Timothy D. Adams, Amy Johnson Berke, Darnell Arnoult, John Bassett, Mark Bauman, Elizabeth Beaulieu, Bert Bender, Raymond Betts, Bruce Bickley, John Bittner, Lynn Bloom, Molly Boyd, Patricia Bradley, William L. Andrews, Kenneth Huntress Baldwin, Geneva H. Weaks, Alan T. Belsches, Robert Bray, George Brosi, Violet Harrington Bryan, Louis J. Budd, Loretta S. Burns, Rebecca Roxburgh Butler, Keith Byerman, Jennifer Campbell, Mark Canada, Robert Cantwell, Jack Capps, Eric W. Carlson, Thomas M. Carlson, Brian Carpenter, Duane Carr, Michael Cass, Philip Castille, William Caudill, James W. Clark, Rod Cockshutt, H. Thorne Compton, John Coski, Alice Cotton, Brigette Craft, Jim Crisp, Regina Dragoin, Tiffany Duet, John Duvall, Connie Eble, Clyde Edgerton, William Ellis, Everett H. Emerson, John Ernest, Mary Michaels Estrada, Barbara C. Ewell, Jeffrey Folks, Doreen Fowler, Thomas B. Frazier, Donnalee Frega, Mary Ellis Gibson, Robert Gingher, Christopher Goodson, Katherine Grimes, Kristina K. Groover, Joan Wylie Hall, Trudier Harris, M. Suzan Harrison, Sam Hill, Bert Hitchcock, Richard Hocks, Edward R. Hoffman, George Hovis, Ronald Hyatt, Ed Ingebretson, Susan Irons, Paul Christian Jones, Kimball King, Lovalerie King, J.A Lemay, George C. Longest, Rebecca Mark, Charles E. May, Michael Mcfee, Katie Mckee, Danny Miller, Mae Miller, Jerry Leath Mills, Rachel Mills, Claudia Milstead, Douglas Mitchell, Harold Mixon, Ruth Moose, Amy R. Moreno, Winifred Morgan, Joel Myerson, Will Nash, Elsa Nettels, Daphne O'brien, Margaret O'connor, Farrell O'gorman, Charles Oldham, Violeta Padron-Bermejo, Daniel Patterson, Patsy Perry, Robert L. Phillips, Edward Piacentino, Alison Piepmeier, Tara Powell, William Powell, Carmine Prioli, Tim Pyatt, Kevin E. Quashine, David Rachels, David Radavich, Julius Rowan Raper, Shannon Ravenel, Jeffrey H. Richards, Thomas J. Richardson, Wesley Allen Riddle, John Rogers, Leonard Rogoff, Roberta Rosenberg, Sage Rountree, Hugh Ruppersburg, Richard D. Rust, Steven T. Ryan, John Salomone, Patrick Samway, Barbara Schnorrenberg, Jane Schultz, George Scouten, Dorothy Scura, Lynne Shackelford, Peter Shea, Frank W. Shelton, David Shields, Bland Simpson, Ethel C. Simpson, David L. Smith, Rebecca G. Smith, Virginia Whatley Smith, D. Michael Snider, Robert E. Snyder, Bess S. Spangler, Cushing Strout, David Taylor, W. D. Taylor, Fred Thiemann, Nancy Tilly, Mary Titus, Theresa M. Towner, Cile Moise Traywick, Anne M. Turner, Ruel Tyson, John Valentine, Amber Vogel, Thomas Warburton, Anne Bradford Warner, Jim Watkins, Charles Watson, Ellen Weinauer, Karen Weyler, Stephen Whited, Barbara J. Wilcots, William Williams, Christopher Windolph, Joe Wisdom, Walt Wolfram, Harold Woodell, Randall Woodland, Manuel Wortman, Emily Wright, Lamar York, Anne Zahlan, Terry Zug, Barbara Bennett, Sylvia Jenkins Cook, Randolph Delehanty, Betina Entzminger, Jane Gentry, M. Thomas Inge, Michael Kreyling, Murrey Loretta, Caroline Maun, Wayne Mixon, Keith Perry, Anne E. Rowe, Robert O. Stephens, Janis Stout, Elinor Walker, Mary Weaks-Baxter, Mary Goldfield, Gayle Graham Yates, Rayburn S. Moore, Fred Hobson, Eric Gary Anderson, Lucinda H. Mackethan
Hardcover, 1,054 Pages, Published 2001 by Louisiana State Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2692-9, ISBN: 0-8071-2692-6

"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 ..."






Stories of the Modern South
by Ben Forkner, Patrick Samway
Hardcover, 439 Pages, Published 1984 by Peter Smith Pub Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-8446-6171-1, ISBN: 0-8446-6171-6

"This excellent collection includes works by Truman Capote, James Agee, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Tyler, Reynolds Price, and many others."






Alpine Excellence for Women
Train Optimally for Your Outdoor Sport
by Walker Percy, Patrick Samway, Courtenay Schurman
Published 2003 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-9742639-1-5, ISBN: 0-9742639-1-5






Flannery O'Connor and Robert Giroux
A Publishing Partnership
by Patrick H. Samway
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-268-10309-5, ISBN: 0-268-10309-7

"Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction writers. The immensely talented Robert Giroux, editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace & Company and later of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, was her devoted friend and admirer. He edited her three books published during her lifetime, plus Everything that Rises Must Converge, which she completed just before she died in 1964 at the age of thirty-nine, the posthumous The Complete Stori ..."






John Berryman and Robert Giroux(1st Edition)
A Publishing Friendship
by Samway, Patrick S.J.
Hardcover, 298 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-268-10841-0, ISBN: 0-268-10841-2






Educating Darfur Refugees
A Jesuit's Efforts in Chad
by Patrick H. Samway
Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Scranton Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-164-6, ISBN: 1-58966-164-8

"As a result of the genocide in Darfur, tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee Sudan and seek refuge in overcrowded, desolate desert camps along the Chadian border. Educating Darfur Refugees is the unforgettable journal of a Jesuit priest who spent nine months in 2004 and 2005 working in three of those refugee camps. Samway’s diaries, deeply informed by his perspective as a religious scholar but as engrossing as any page- ..."






A New Reader of the Old South
Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920 [Hardcover] Forkner, Ben and Samway S J, Patrick
by Editor-Ben Forkner, Editor-Patrick Samway, Peachtree Publishers
Hardcover, 644 Pages, Published 1991 by Peachtree Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-56145-019-0, ISBN: 1-56145-019-7

"Forkner and Samway have selected from the most original and lasting works of nineteenth-century Southern writing (1820-1920) to reflect the full range of the Southern experience. The thorough introduction illuminates the individual pieces, providing insight into the culture of the Old South, from which rose a new generation of prominent, American writers."






A Gathering of Evidence(1st Edition)
Essays on William Faulkner's 'Intruder in the Dust'
by Michel Gresset, Patrick H. Samway
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2004 by St. Joseph's University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-916101-46-6, ISBN: 0-916101-46-0

"This book gathers together twelve recent and classic essays on Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, which he termed "a mystery-murder" whose theme concerns a "relationship between Negro and white, specifically or rather the premise being that the white people in the south, before the North or the govt. or anyone else, owe and must pay a responsibility to the Negro." These essays provide a rich set of resources to teachers who wish to assign ..."






Walker Percy(1st Edition)
A Life
by Patrick H. Samway, S. J. Samway
Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 1999 by Loyola Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8294-1268-0, ISBN: 0-8294-1268-9

"The author is particularly well qualified to evaluate novelist Walker Percy's philosophical interests and 1947 conversion to Catholicism: Patrick Samway, a Jesuit priest, edited a volume of Percy's uncollected essays and another of his correspondence on the subject of American semiotician Charles Sanders Pierce. Although he knew Percy (1916-90) personally in his final years, Samway maintains a scholarly distance in this meticulously res ..."



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