A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature

by Richard Gray

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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 texts - a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational.To read a southern story, poem, or play, Gray says, is to access a multitude of texts: surrounding, indwelling, echoing voices that exist within, and because of, a...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780820330051
  • Publish Date 1 December 2007
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Georgia Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English