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S.S.S.L.

Society for the Study of Southern Literature

Paperback Anthologies of Southern Literature Penguin Press will soon republish Stories of the Modern South, edited by Benjamin Forkner and Patrick Samway. William C. Pratt's Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective is still on  ...
Development from Below: A Namibian Case Study

Development from Below: A Namibian Case Study

Reinhart Kössler

This is followed by a concrete case study from southern Namibia. It illustrates local responses by the Witbooi-Nama in Gibeon to (re-)define identity within the context of a (nation-)state in a post-apartheid society.
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 9: Literature

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 9: Literature

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... ted olson East Tennessee State University Charlotte H. Beck, The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History (2001); Richard Beale Davis, Literature and Society in Early Virginia, 1608–1840 (1973); Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. MacKethan, eds., ...
Southern Historical Society Papers

Southern Historical Society Papers

Southern Historical Society

When we remember that only forty-two brave men foiled him, too much honor cannot be paid to their memory, and we, the United Daughters ofthe Confederacy of Beaumont, have named our chapter for their leader, Lieutenant Dowling.
Inventing Southern Literature

Inventing Southern Literature

Michael Kreyling

Michael Kreyling. INVENTING SOUTHERN LITERATURE This page intentionally left blank INVENTING SOUTHERN LITERATURE Michael Kreyling.
American Society of Civil Engineers - Los Angeles Section: ...

American Society of Civil Engineers - Los Angeles Section: ...

American Society of Civil Engineers

CONSTUTUTION OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATIONOF MEMBERS OFTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY OFCIVIL ENGINEERS ARTICLE I. Name, Location and Object Section 1. The name of this Association shall be the SOUTHERN ...
Terry Southern and the American Grotesque

Terry Southern and the American Grotesque

David Tully

Unpublished works are used by permission of the estate of Terry Southern and executor Nile Southern and the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden ...
Elvis Presley: A Southern Life

Elvis Presley: A Southern Life

Joel Williamson

One of the most admired Southern historians of our time paints an intimate portrait of Elvis Presley, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society, that illuminates the zenith of his career, showing how Elvis himself changed—and didn ...
Criticism from the Heart

Criticism from the Heart

Kristina Nelson

This book is a must have, and a must read for anybody interested in the study of literature, any literature student, any literature professor, or anybody simply interested in learning more about literature.
African Christian Outreach: African initiated churches

African Christian Outreach: African initiated churches

M. L. Daneel

2001 Southern African Missiological Society First edition, first impression lSBN 1 -86888-1 92-X Published by the Southern African Missiological Society PO Box 35704 Menlo Park 0102 South Africa Printed by Daan Roux Printers, Pretoria ...
Law and Literature Reconsidered

Law and Literature Reconsidered

Austin Sarat

What, if any, new paradigms of literary study of legal phenomena are on the horizon?This is a contemporary study of law and literature. It includes contributions by an international group of leading scholars.
The Female Tradition in Southern Literature

The Female Tradition in Southern Literature

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Hurston's recognition of the power of language and speech, specifically in Southern voices and tales, is at the center of the work of a now forgotten white writer, Kathleen Moore Morehouse, from the same period in the 1930s. In an afterword to ...
Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi

Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi

Brian Morris

This book describes in detail one such herbalist tradition, that found in southern Malawi.
Faulkner and Material Culture: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004

Faulkner and Material Culture: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004

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2. Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)—Congresses. 3. Material culture in literature—Congresses. 4. Southern States—In literature—Congresses. 5. Material culture—Southern States—Congresses. I. Urgo, Joseph R. II. Abadie, Ann J.
Bulletin

Bulletin

Tennessee Folklore Society

"The Lord's Work": Southern Folk Belief in Signs, Warnings, and Dream-Visions by Paula Hathaway Anderson-Green Georgia State University INTRODUCTION The stimulus for this study came from two sources : one , an article in Hill's ...
Mosaic: A Journal for the Comparative Study of Literature

Mosaic: A Journal for the Comparative Study of Literature

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KELLI LYON JOHNSON earned her Ph.D. in English at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, where she has taught writing, literature, and women's studies. Her other publications on Latina and Caribbean literature appear in Frontiers and The ...
The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954: Some ...

The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954: Some ...

Walter B. Rideout

This study examines the relationship between society and literature and shows how the proletarian novel, a literary phenomenon of the 1930s, was a reflection of current interest in revolutionary Marxism.
Religion, Order, and Law

Religion, Order, and Law

David Little

On the the other hand, Little has given an invaluable critical survey of the extensive literature of Weber's thesis. This is a landmark in the study of the complex and varying relations between religion and society.
Library of Southern Literature: Biography

Library of Southern Literature: Biography

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11827— 1886] BESSIE LEWIS WHITAKER MARY BAYARD DEVEREUX, afterwards Mary Bayard Clarke, is known best in the society of poets by her non de plume, "Tenella." She wrote also in prose, occasionally under the pseudonym "Stuart ...
The Southern State of Mind

The Southern State of Mind

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JAN NORDBY GRETLUND is a professor < American literature at the University of Souther Denmark. He has held American Council of Learne Societies or Fulbnght fellowships at Vanderbi University, the University of Southern Mississipp and ...
Breaking Boundaries with Global Literature: Celebrating ...

Breaking Boundaries with Global Literature: Celebrating ...

Nancy L. Hadaway

Draws from the Notable Books for a Global Society booklists to explore different themes in global literature and offer ideas for implementing global literature in your classroom.
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"

Herbert Aptheker

First full-length study of the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history explores the nature of Southern society in the early 19th century and the conditions that led to the rebellion.
Best American Magazine Writing 2013

Best American Magazine Writing 2013

The American Society of Magazine Editors

“It's got to be tight and bright.” After a year or two, Plimpton stopped asking; I continued to question Southern about it but less and less frequently. When Southern died in 1995, his long-time companion, Gail Gerber, said to me, as a consolation ...
Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts

Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts

Brittany E. Wilson

Edited by D. F. Watson. Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012. Penner, Todd and Caroline Vander Stichele. “ 'All the World's a Stage': The Rhetoric of Gender in Acts.” Pages 373–98 in Luke ...
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross: Catholic-Protestant ...

Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross: Catholic-Protestant ...

Andrew Henry Stern

Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross is the first book to demonstrate in detail the ways in which many Protestants actively fostered the growth of American Catholicism.

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