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Author:

Folks, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey Jay), 1948-

Title:

Southern writers and the machine : Faulkner to Percy / Jeffrey J. Folks.

Publisher:

P. Lang,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

173 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Technology.--Technology.
American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
Literature and technology--Southern States--History--20th century.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Southern States in literature.
Machinery in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173).

Contents:

Honor in Faulkner's short fiction -- Faulkner's doomed aviators : Pylon -- Temple Drake as modernist heroine -- Allen Tate and the Victorians -- Allen Tate's treatment of mechanization -- The mechanical in Everything that rises must converge -- Art and the mechanical in Styron's fiction -- Ernest Gaines and the New South -- Walker Percy's critique of technology.

Series:

Worcester Polytechnic Institute studies in science, technology, and culture ; vol. 11

ISBN:

9780820418568
0820418560

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25631466

LCCN:

92012061

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)