Composing Selves(1st Edition) Southern Women and Autobiography (Southern Literary Studies) by PeggyWhitmanPrenshaw Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2011 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3791-8, ISBN: 0-8071-3791-X
"In Composing Selves, award-winning author Peggy Whitman Prenshaw provides the most comprehensive treatment of autobiographies by women in the American South. This long-anticipated addition to Prenshaw's study of southern literature spans the twentieth century as she provides an in-depth look at the life-writing of eighteen women authors.Composing Selves travels the wide terrain of female life in the South, analyzing various issues that ..."
" This is a new edition of the autobiography of Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair (1883-1961). She started life innocently and happily on her father's Mississippi Delta plantation but went on to know deprivation and danger when she married Upton Sinclair, the crusading social activist. As she joined him in his struggles to rescue "the disinherited of the earth," collaborating with him in writing a shelf of books, she gave up the moonlight an ..."
"This book of conversations with one of America’s most revered writers extends the firsthand account of Eudora Welty’s life and work from the early 1980s to the present and supplements Conversations with Eudora Welty, which novelist Anne Tyler said brought her “pure pleasure.” These interviews include many that refer to Welty’s memoir, One Writer’s Beginnings, and greatly amplify the picture of her personal life that emerged from the ear ..."
"In a very brief interview not included here, Spencer tells Laurie L. Brown that it
would have been an unusual southern family who "would ... generally to her
forthright treatment of racial themes and local politics in the 1956 The Voice at the
Back Door. ... I was trying to straighten out my own attitudes about blacks and
whites in the South — that was the impulse of the book. ... I began to listen to
these inner voices, to people ..."
"Welty: That's what I'm waiting to do. I have just now finished writing a piece for Mr.
Bruccoli. This was an "Afterword" on a novel called The Great Big Doorstep by
E. P. O'Donnell from 1941. This is in the Lost American Fiction Series. I was
asked if I had a nomination for such a series, and I nominated this book. I was
thrilled when I was asked to write the "Afterword." That's all. That is the last
assignment that I promised. I c ..."
"The very best essays from fifty years of scholarship and thought Essays by Margaret Walker Alexander, Alfred Bendixen, David C. Berry, Augustus M. Burns, James Taylor Carson, Thadious M. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, Don H. Doyle, Barbara C. Ewell, Robert L. Hall, William H. Hatcher, Arthell Kelley, Manning Marable, Joseph Millichap, Willie Morris, John Solomon Otto, Harriet Pollack, Kathryn L. Seidel, John Ray Skates, Randy J. Sparks, Ma ..."
"Women Writers of the Contemporary South edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw essays about Lisa Alther, Toni Cade Bambara, Doris Betts, Rita Mae Brown, Ellen Douglas, Ellen Gilchrist, Gail Godwin, Shirley Ann Grau, Beverly Lowry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Berry Morgan, Mary Lee Settle, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Joan Williams The essays in this collection are evidence that the most notable fiction writers of the cont ..."
"In a series of interviews Eudora Welty discusses her life in Mississippi, her literary career, and her novels and short stories"
Eudora Welty Thirteen Essays by PeggyWhitmanPrenshaw Paperback, 262 Pages, Published 2009 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-396-9, ISBN: 1-60473-396-9
"This collection of essays about the writings of Eudora Welty reflects a range of Welty criticism. Themes, forms, and stylistic features in her work are given careful consideration by some of the most notable scholars on her work: John Alexander Allen, J.A. Bryant, Jr., Daniel Curley, Julia L. Demmin, Albert J. Devlin, Chester E. Eisinger, Warren French, Seymour Gross, John Edward Hardy, Robert B. Heilman, Michael Kreyling, Barbara McKen ..."
"The very best essays from fifty years of scholarship and thought Essays by Margaret Walker Alexander, Alfred Bendixen, David C. Berry, Augustus M. Burns, James Taylor Carson, Thadious M. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, Don H. Doyle, Barbara C. Ewell, Robert L. Hall, William H. Hatcher, Arthell Kelley, Manning Marable, Joseph Millichap, Willie Morris, John Solomon Otto, Harriet Pollack, Kathryn L. Seidel, John Ray Skates, Randy J. Sparks, Ma ..."
MORE CONVERSATIONS WITH EUDORA WELTY LITERARY CONVERSATIONS SERIES - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition With Rare Postcard Signed by Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty, PeggyWhitmanPrenshaw Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1996 by Univ Pr Of Mississippi (Txt) ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-864-8, ISBN: 0-87805-864-8
The Snare (Banner Books Series) by Elizabeth Spencer, PeggyWhitmanPrenshaw Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2012 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-686-6, ISBN: 1-61703-686-2
"It is well known that New Orleans has its dark underside as well as its glowing visible delights. The journey that Julia Garrett, an intelligent, attractive, but psychically driven girl, makes through the city s hidden labyrinth shapes the movement of this riveting novel. In crisscrossing the city from the secure world of home in the Garden District to the titillating world of the Vieux Carre, Julia risks physical and psychological peri ..."
"Women Writers of the Contemporary South edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw essays about Lisa Alther, Toni Cade Bambara, Doris Betts, Rita Mae Brown, Ellen Douglas, Ellen Gilchrist, Gail Godwin, Shirley Ann Grau, Beverly Lowry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Berry Morgan, Mary Lee Settle, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Joan Williams The essays in this collection are evidence that the most notable fiction writers of the cont ..."
Eudora Welty Thirteen Essays (selected from Eudora Welty: Critical Essays) by PeggyWhitmanPrenshaw, Eudora Welty Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 1983 by Univ Pr Of Mississippi (Txt) ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-187-8, ISBN: 0-87805-187-2
"John: And with Marcia Pope, are you saying that she may be the only one who has
the strength to ... I guess that's what I intended to say about Marcia Pope. ..."
The Snare(Reprint) (Banner Books) by Elizabeth Spencer, PeggyWhitmanPrenshaw Paperback, 407 Pages, Published 1993 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-666-8, ISBN: 0-87805-666-1
"It is well known that New Orleans has its dark underside as well as its glowing visible delights. The journey one intelligent, attractive, but psychically driven girl makes through the city's hidden labyrinth is the element that impels this riveting novel. In crisscrossing the city from the secure world of home in the Garden District to the titillating world of the Vieux Carre, she risks physical and psychological peril. As she explores ..."
"Punk: A. Generation. Later. Geoff. Pevere/1993. CBC radio, broadcast May 26
and May 27, 1993. Transcribed by Joe Bonomo. ... The myth of punk music goes
like this: it burned bright; it burned hard; and it burned out, and faster than you
can say ... brought songs that were about anything but hope; it brought songs
about, among other things, anarchy in the U.K. . ... Essential Logic, Elvis Costello,
and even Public Image, Ltd., the b ..."
"Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, "There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate." For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among figures, sounds, and events in culture, relating unrelated points of departure, mapping alternate histories and surprising correspondences. He is a unique and influential voice in American letters. Marcus was born in 1945 in San Francisco. In 1969 ..."