| New Orleans: A Literary History Contributor(s): Johnson, T. R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1108498191 ISBN-13: 9781108498197 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2019 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.997 |
| LCCN: 2019013153 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.42" W x 9.26" L (1.60 lbs) 396 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product |
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| Publisher Description: New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as in popular lore and song. This book provides detailed discussions of all of the most significant writing that this city has ever inspired - from its origins in a flood-prone swamp to the rise of a creole culture at the edges of the European empires; from its emergence as a cosmopolitan, hemispheric crossroads and a primary hub of the slave trade to the days when, in its red light district, the children and grandchildren of the enslaved conjured a new kind of music that became America's greatest gift to the world; from the mid-twentieth-century masterpieces by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Walker Percy to the realms of folklore, hip hop, vampire fiction, and the Asian and Latin American archives. |
Contributor Bio(s): Johnson, T. R.: - T. R. Johnson is a Professor of English and Weiss Presidential Fellow at Tulane University, Louisiana. He has written books about Lacanian psychoanalysis, the teaching of writing, and about prose-style. He has also taught at Boston University and the University of Louisville. |
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