Kite Flying And Other Irrational Acts Conversations With Twelve Southern Writers Edited By John Carr

Author : John C. Carr
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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Kite-Flying and Other Irrational Acts; Conversations With Twelve Southern Writers, Edited by John Carr written by John C. Carr and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Carr
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807125236
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kite-Flying and Other Irrational Acts written by John Carr and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with: Doris Betts Fred Chappell Shelby Foote Jesse Hill Ford George Garrett Larry L. King Marion Montgomery Willie Morris Guy Owen Walker Percy Reynolds Price James Whitehead What does it mean to be a Southern writer in the 1970s? What is the nature of today’s South and what prospects does it offer a writer? These twelve interviews with writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction elicit some thoughtful and revealing answers. Because the interviews were taped, there is a spontaneity that brings forth the personality of each writer and provides a text that is interesting and entertaining as well as instructive. In the first interview with Shelby Foote to appear since the early 1950s, the Mississippi novelist discusses his fiction and extensive writing on Civil War history. A thoughtful conversation with Walker Percy ranges over his three novels and reveals their philosophical roots. Marion Montgomery speaks perceptively about his fiction and poetry as ceremonial efforts “to reconcile the private act with the public act.” A two-part interview with Reynolds Price suggests the nature of one novelist’s mind as he chronicles a world beneath the one other people perceive, “that world which seems to impinge upon, to color, to shape, the daily world we inhabit.” Willie Morris tells about growing up in Mississippi, about going home to Yazoo, and about the effect of New York on his Southernness, while Larry L. King speaks of race relations, literature, and Texas and talks frankly about how he and Morris came to resign from Harper’s. The short story is Doris Betts’ forte, and she comments significantly on the form which allows her to “speak briefly on long subjects.” The business of writing is as irrational as kite-flying, observes George Garrett in a candid discussion of the publishing world, his own ups and downs as a writer, and his latest novel, The Death of the Fox. Jesse Hill Ford, talking about his fiction and his writing career, speaks up proudly for the South: “Nest to a bulldozer blade a magnolia is probably the hardest damned thing in the world.” Both the mountain country of North Carolina and the fantastic landscapes of his imagination have influenced Fred Chappell, who remarks on the grotesque in his novels and poetry. Guy Owen tells about his interacting roles as fiction writer, poet, editor, and teacher; his compelling interest in the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina; and his experience with Hollywood. Poetry, the novel, football, and a passion for teaching are the subjects of a provocative and free-wheeling conversation with James Whitehead. “Have you ever stopped to think that for the first time there have been no rational rewards for writing in the way that there were in the past. . . Nowadays, it’s about as rational as saying, ‘What do you do for a living?’ ‘Well, I’m a kite-flyer.’ I mean there’s not a great demand for kite-flyers around. There may be a few who draw a little money. Therefore, today, writing appeals to a different mentality. A Shakespeare today might be doing something else that’s more rational. Now the other thing is that because this is true, fundamentally writing doesn’t matter in the world of commerce. It has a certain kind of—I wouldn’t say purity, but freedom that is never had.”—George Garrett

Author : John Carr
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ISBN 13 : 9780598059659
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Kite-Flying and Other Irrational Acts written by John Carr and published by . This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Kite-flying and the Other Irrationnal Acto written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert L. Phillips
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800591
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shelby Foote written by Robert L. Phillips and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the greatest Civil War historian, Shelby Foote began his career as a novelist whose powerful works of fiction rose out of his closeness to life and culture in his native region, the Mississippi Delta country. Later in his career he transformed modern historical prose by his keen sense of the novel. His artistic distance from the elements of regionalism that lie at the heart both of his novels and of his history writing gives his prose great narrative force. This perceptive study fills the genuine need for a sound critical appreciation of Foote the novelist. After he appeared as a sage commentator in the PBS series The Civil War, the popular acclaim that catapulted Shelby Foote the historian to even greater eminence as an American oracle renewed much deserved interest in his novels and in critically rich assessments such as this one.

Author : John Lang
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033773
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Fred Chappell written by John Lang and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lang evaluates Chappell's major works, including the four novels preceding Midquest, the first five volumes of poetry, the remarkably different books of poems published between Castle Tzingal and Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems, and the two collections of short stories. An investigation of the varied connections between and achievements of the Kirkman tetralogy and Midquest concludes this analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810831957
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers written by Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully annotated bibliography lists sources of criticism for thirty-nine Southern male authors, each of whom has published at least one significant book of fiction between 1970 and 1994.

Author : Casey Clabough
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865549456
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Experimentation and Versatility written by Casey Clabough and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Experimentation and Versatility considers Chappell's first four novels and his short fiction - the novels chronologically and the short stories thematically - in order to demonstrate the unique range and importance of his fictional prose. Rather than inserting Chappell's fictional variables into a single theoretical formula, Clabough traces and celebrates their various and multifaceted excursions into genres as disparate as Appalachian pastoralism and experimental science fiction. Containing both an interview with Chappell and a previously unpublished short story, Experimentation and Versatility also offers new primary sources on Chappell's work, even as it contextualizes him as one of our most exciting and multi-talented contemporary writers. Investigating the complexities of Chappell's work, Clabough's study offers new ways of considering Chappell, who has been characterized variously as a Appalachian, Southern, and fantasy writer. However, as Clabough demonstrates, he is, in fact, all and none of these things - a writer of immense gifts constantly reinventing himself through his experiments in seemingly disparate genres."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 143814069X
Total Pages : 3854 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Novel written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

Author : Mark Royden Winchell
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826262317
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book Where No Flag Flies written by Mark Royden Winchell and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: