Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-229) and index.
Contents:
The autobiographical epic -- The classical legacy -- Allen Tate : classical matters, seasons of the soul, and recovered memories -- Caroline Gordon : auto/biography, Aleck Maury, and the heroic cycle -- William Faulkner : genealogy and stewardship, ekphrasis and appellation in Go down, Moses -- Thomas Wolfe : Odyssey and Anabasis in O lost -- Robert Penn Warren : father figures and dead languages, age-work and life-review -- Eudora Welty : fiction, memoir, and classical myth -- Ralph Ellison : autobiography and epic, before and after Invisible man -- Epilogue : the post-Southern renascence.
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