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The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 22 2004
The Mississippi Quarterly, subtitled The Journal of Southern Cultures, is a scholarly journal covering literature, the humanities and social sciences as they pertain to the Southern United States and its authors. Founded in 1948, Mississippi State University publishes The Mississippi Quarterly quarterly. Noel Polk is the Editor and Laura West is the Managing Editor.
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The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 22 2004
Kate Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings": The Marital Burden and the Lure of Consumerism
June 22, 2004... IT IS NO NEWS THAT, FAILING TO FIND FULFILLMENT in their marriages, wives in Kate Chopin's fiction are sometimes driven in their desperation to suicide, adultery, or desertion. But in "A Pair of Silk Stockings," (1) a story too rarely discussed...
Recognizing the Step: Rodney Jones and the Southern Speaking Poem
June 22, 2004... I know what it is to speak without knowing
How it will be received, to take a number,
To sway in a long-decadent tongue as on
A hammock stretched between two pining
Consonants, to audit the gross diphthong,
To pray Do you know...
Magical Realism and the Mississippi Delta
June 22, 2004... Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives...
Variations on the Grotesque: From Poe's "The Black Cat" to Oates's "The White Cat"
June 22, 2004... IN HER "AFTERWORD" TO Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994), Joyce Carol Oates discusses the concept of the grotesque, pointing out its allure, variety, and pervasiveness in art throughout the centuries. Significantly, she refers to Poe's...
Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories: A Commentary on the Cultural Ideologies of Gender Identity
June 22, 2004... IN DISCUSSIONS OF THE TREATMENT OF WOMEN in Katherine Anne Porter's short stories, critics almost invariably examine the recurring character of Miranda. Typically, scholars such as William L. Nance and John Edward Hardy focus on how her...
