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... William Styron that the qualities that distinguished southern culture in the past ( racial tensions , emphasis on family , community , religious life ) had become " victims of attrition " so that even though xxii INTRODUCTION.
... William Styron that the qualities that distinguished southern culture in the past ( racial tensions , emphasis on family , community , religious life ) had become " victims of attrition " so that even though xxii INTRODUCTION.
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Rosemary M. Magee. become " victims of attrition " so that even though writers continue to write about the South the voice may not be " peculiarly Southern anymore . " 31 Mason replies that it is a mistake to view Southern liter- ature ...
Rosemary M. Magee. become " victims of attrition " so that even though writers continue to write about the South the voice may not be " peculiarly Southern anymore . " 31 Mason replies that it is a mistake to view Southern liter- ature ...
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... becoming increasingly self - conscious about the influ- ence of gender on their work and the importance of community ... become increasingly sensitive to the things in her life " related to being a woman , and in particular with children ...
... becoming increasingly self - conscious about the influ- ence of gender on their work and the importance of community ... become increasingly sensitive to the things in her life " related to being a woman , and in particular with children ...
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... decline to do anything . I , on the contrary , believe quite as firmly that the longer one lives in this world of hazard and escapes disaster , the more reckless one should become 5 Opening Speech of the Southern Writers Conference.
... decline to do anything . I , on the contrary , believe quite as firmly that the longer one lives in this world of hazard and escapes disaster , the more reckless one should become 5 Opening Speech of the Southern Writers Conference.
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Contents
3 | |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 13 |
Carson McCullers | 21 |
Margaret Walker | 28 |
Connections | 39 |
Review of None Shall Look Back | 60 |
by Caroline Gordon | 68 |
Katherine Anne Porter | 78 |
of Flannery OConnor | 172 |
by Flannery OConnor | 187 |
Shirley Ann Grau | 193 |
Lee Smith | 203 |
Review of The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon | 212 |
Dialogues | 225 |
Review of The Killing Ground by Mary Lee Settle | 232 |
Review of The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin | 239 |
The Wide Net | 95 |
Review of The NeverEnding Wrong | 115 |
Elizabeth Spencer | 136 |
Anne Tyler | 142 |
Alice Walker | 154 |
and a Partisan View | 164 |
Review of A Mother and Two Daughters | 247 |
Barbara Kingsolver | 255 |
Communities | 295 |
Bobbie Ann Mason and Elizabeth Spencer | 308 |
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Page 103 - ... reality refusing to admit or confirm the existence of the other, yet both conspiring toward the same end. This is not easy to accomplish, but it is always worth trying, and Miss Welty is so successful at it, it would seem her most familiar territory. There is no blurring at the edges, but evidences of an active and disciplined imagination working firmly in a strong line of continuity, the waking faculty of daylight reason recollecting and recording the crazy logic of the dream.