A Web of Words - The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature

Informationen zum Autor RICHARD GRAY is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex and the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The author or editor of more than fifteen books, he is currently co-organizing a major international, collaborative research project, Transatlantic Exchanges: The South in Europe-Europe in the American South . Klappentext Richard Gray is known as both a leading European scholar in American literature and a leading international scholar of the literature of the American South. Through numerous examples drawn from southern literature! a historically conscious body of writing clearly in conversation with itself! Gray helps us to understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its textsa web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational. Zusammenfassung Through numerous examples drawn from southern literature, a historically conscious body of writing clearly in conversation with itself, Gray helps us to understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its texts—a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Gray, Richard J. Gray
• Assisted by: Sarah Gardner (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2007
• EAN: 9780820330051
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3005-1
• No. of pages: 283
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Mercer University Lamar Memori; Mercer University Lamar Memori
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General