Literary New Orleans in the Modern World

Informationen zum Autor Richard S. Kennedy (1920--2002) was the author of Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E. E. Cummings and The Window of Memory: A Literary Biography of Thomas Wolfe. He also edited the collection Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations. He was a professor emeritus of English at Temple University in Philadelphia. Klappentext This volume focuses on 20th-century New Orleans, from modernism's brief blooming in the 1920s to a recurrence and transformation of earlier romantic strains in contemporary Gothic and mystery fiction. LITERARY NEW ORLEANS IN THE MODERN WORLD is written in the spirit of New Orleans itself as it has cast its spell on its authors. 37 photos.

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• Authors: Richard S. (EDT) Kennedy
• Assisted by: Richard S Kennedy (Editor), Richard S. Kennedy (Editor)
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2006
• EAN: 9780807131596
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3159-6
• No. of pages: 169
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Southern Literary Studies; Southern Literary Studies (Pap
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies