The Mississippi Quarterly articles from March 2001

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from March 2001

Introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2001... AT THE APRIL 2000 MEETING OF THE Society for the Study of Southern Literature in Orlando, Robert Phillips asked me to consider guest editing a special issue on Barry Hannah. That was the only face-to-face communication in the process that has...

The southern picturesque: a symposium.
March 22, 2001... The Historic New Orleans Collection 533 Royal Street New Orleans, Louisiana December 28, 2001 9-11 AM, 1-3 PM The symposium will explore through the papers of scholars, readings by writers, and slide presentations by artists the...

Bad faith and the ethic of existential action: Kierkegaard, Sartre, and a boy named Harry: we were so tiny but we were sincere (1).
March 22, 2001... FROM BENEATH THE BLEACHERS OF THE Dream of Pines Colored High School practice field, the narrative voice of Harriman (Harry) Monroe, protagonist of Barry Hannah's novel Geronimo Rex, confesses wonder and dread at the sound of music. The music...

"All the confederate dead.... all of Faulkner the great": Faulkner, Hannah, neo-confederate narrative and postsouthern parody.
March 22, 2001... ACCORDING TO HAROLD BLOOM'S FAMOUS theory of influence, literary "latecomers" have forever fought futile, Oedipal battles to overcome their poetic antecedents. As this "anxiety of influence" exacts its toll, so Bloom sees literary history as a...

"It was always life intense I was after": heroes, true and false, in Barry Hannah's fiction.
March 22, 2001... THE FINE LINE BETWEEN HEROIC BEHAVIOR and mere violence is one that Barry Hannah walks in most of his fiction, and his characters often veer from one side to the other, combining the two in a confused quest for meaning. As Hannah's characters...

The narrative structure of Barry Hannah's "Water Liars".(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... IN THE INTRODUCTION to Barry Hannah: Postmodern, Romantic, Ruth Weston succinctly identifies several of the challenges confronting readers of Hannah's fiction: "[R]eviewers of his books continually speak of his fiction as both structurally and...

Barry Hannah's anti-myth method: anti-Freudian plots and fractured fairy tales.
March 22, 2001... BARRY HANNAH'S DELIBERATELY NON-LINEAR fictions can be frustrating to readers who expect a familiarity with literary conventions to help them. According to Philip Beidler, they are often "protean" but "ungraspable," as if Hannah is...

The metafictional aesthetic of high lonesome.(Barry Hannah)('High Lonesome')
March 22, 2001... The stories of Barry Hannah's High Lonesome (1) present the reader with a gallery of characters who are involved with the creative arts: musicians, actors, painters, and writers; and their artistic performances are integral to the drama of each...

Conference announcement.(Second International Edgar Allan Poe Conference)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Second International Edgar Allan Poe Conference October 3-6, 2002 Baltimore, Maryland, United States The Poe Studies Association, in conjunction with the Poe Society of Baltimore, Goucher College, and the College of Charleston, invites...

Interview with Barry Hannah: February 6, 2001.(Interview)
March 22, 2001... WILLIAMS: Barry, I'd like to start by asking you a couple of questions about your new novel that is about to be published. By my count, this is your thirteenth book? HANNAH: Yeah, I think either twelfth or thirteenth. I can't remember. ...

But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative. (Book Reviews).(Review)
March 22, 2001... But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative, by Fred Hobson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xvi, 160 pp. $30.00 cloth. $14.95 paper. EVER SINCE HIS INFLUENTIAL Tell About the South: The Southern Rage...

Allen Tate: Orphan of the South. (Book Reviews).(Review)
March 22, 2001... Allen Tate: Orphan of the South, by Thomas A. Underwood. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000. 440 pp. $35.00 cloth. AFTER MEETING HIM, THE PIANIST Eric Bentley reported that Allen Tate, contrary to his reputation, "was...

Circling Dixie: Contemporary Southern Culture Through a Transatlantic Lens. (Book Reviews).(Review)
March 22, 2001... Circling Dixie: Contemporary Southern Culture Through a Transatlantic Lens, by Helen Taylor. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001. xi, 233 pp. $50.00 cloth. $20.00 paper. THE ENGLISH HAVE ALWAYS SPECIALIZED in America-watching,...

William Pitt Ballinger: Texas Lawyer, 1825-1888. (Book Reviews).(Review)
March 22, 2001... William Pitt Ballinger: Texas Lawyer, 1825-1888, by John Anthony Moretta. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2000. xii, 331 pp. $29.95 cloth. THE DUST JACKET OF THIS FINE WORK notes that "few people have played a more important...

Slavery, Secession, and Southern History. (Book Reviews).(Review)
March 22, 2001... Slavery, Secession, and Southern History, edited by Robert Louis Paquette and Louis A. Ferleger. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. xvi, 229 pp. $49.50 cloth, $18.50 paper. EUGENE D. GENOVESE HAS LONG BEEN ONE of the...

Life at Southern Living. (Book Reviews).(Review)
March 22, 2001... Life at Southern Living, by John Logue and Gary McCalla. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. xi, 323 pp. $24.95 cloth. THIS BOOK WILL BE VALUABLE FOR STUDENTS of media relations' history and to historians of Southern...