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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Southern literature Information
2,188 words, approx. 7 pages
 Southern literature (sometimes called the literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region. Characteristics of Southern literature include a focus on a common Southern... 
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 Journal of Southern History Inventing Southern Literature.
08/01/2000: 543 words, approx. 2 pages Inventing Southern Literature. By Michael Kreyling. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 1998. Pp. xviii, 200. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 1-57806-045-1; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-044-3.) "The South," whether we admit it or not, is a tricky construct. In Inventing Southern Literature Michael Kreyling... summary from source:
Southern Cultures Front porch.(southern art and literatures)
06/22/2007: 612 words, approx. 2 pages Southerners are famous for their stories. We have sharp, sly tales about the Rabbit and the Fox that skewer the powers that be. And hilarious family anecdotes about the time when Uncle Buford slipped his garter snake into the prayer meeting and Aunt...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Richard Gray
14,760 words, approx. 49 pages
In the following excerpt, Gray concentrates on developments in the literature of the New South from the romance and nostalgia of early writers, to the cultural expressions of Sidney Lanier's poetry and the autobiographical satire of Mark Twain.
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Critical Essay by Patricia Yaeger
13,318 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following essay, Yaeger discusses Southern women writers' frequent use of physically grotesque characters in their works and emphasizes the latter's political role in “mapping an entire region's social and psychic neuroses.”
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Critical Essay by Lisa A. Long
12,495 words, approx. 42 pages
In the following essay, Long contends that Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 novel The Gates Ajar offers an early symbolic analysis of “the inadequacy of traditional belief systems” in the post-Civil War era.
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