Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog: On Writers and Writing"Examines the problems facing the American literary scene, including creative writing programs, sports writing, Southern literature, publishing, and poetry, with references to William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, James Joyce, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain, Joyce Carol Oates, T. S. Eliot, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Herman Melville, and Ernest Hemingway"--Provided by publisher. |
Contents
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2 ON THE LITERARY USES OF MEMORY Two | 14 |
A TIME A PLAC E A PAINTING Thre e | 28 |
4 THOUGHTS ON FICTIONAL PLACES Fo u r | 41 |
SOME THOUGHTS ON AUTHORSHIP Five | 51 |
ORHOW FIRM A FOUNDATION S ix | 61 |
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Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog: On Writers and Writing Louis Decimus Rubin Limited preview - 2005 |
Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog: On Writers and Writing Louis Decimus Rubin No preview available - 2005 |
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