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      Southern Writers and the Machine: Faulkner to Percy

      Jeffrey J Folks

      Southern Writers and the Machine: Faulkner to Percy traces the artistic treatment of mechanization among two generations of Southern writers. The book studies the artistic and philosophical responses to the…

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      From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern & Postmodern American Narrative

      Jeffrey J. Folks

      From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on southern and African American writers, this…

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      Damaged Lives: Southern and Caribbean Narrative from Faulkner to Naipaul

      Jeffrey J. Folks

      Drawing on the theories of philosophers of ethics including Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre, Damaged Lives: Southern and Caribbean Narrative from Faulkner to Naipaul studies how moral skepticism harms ordinary…

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      Heartland of the Imagination: Conservative Values in American Literature from Poe to O'Connor to Haruf

      Jeffrey J. Folks

      Focuses on the works of conservative American writers and of others who have written of America from a conservative perspective. Beginning with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, the book…

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      In a Time of Disorder: Form and Meaning in Southern Fiction from Poe to O'Connor

      Jeffrey J. Folks

      As Andrew Lytle noted, southern fiction has been written in a time of disorder that has its origin in a post-Enlightenment privileging of unconstrained individualism and personal freedom. Southern writers…

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      The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing

      Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social…

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      Southern Writers at Century’s End

      Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role in which a young Native woman…

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      Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future

      The history of the future is the history of a society’s imagination, and Imagining Tomorrow takes a lively and informative look at the future as envisioned in the American past.

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