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1 online resource (220 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Don't Cry for Me, Itta Bena; 2. The Strangely Familiar World of Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair; 3. Sugar amongst the Chickens; 4. Redbird; 5. Lewis Nordan and One Critic: The Archer or the Arrow Catcher?; 6. Transcendence and Hope in the Blues Life and Life Writing of Lewis Nordan; 7. Life as a Set of Games and Invented Stories in Lewis Nordan's Fictional Memoir; 8. Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Guns and Love in Lewis Nordan's Work; 9. The "Idea of Order" in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi: Scapegoating and Redemption in The Sharpshooter Blues. |
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10. Faulkner's Ghost in Lewis Nordan's 'The Sharpshooter Blues'11. Lewis Nordan's Southern Magic; 12. Lewis (Buddy) Nordan: Poet of Prose; 13. Eulogizing Space: Eudora Welty's "Still Moments" and Gaston Bachelard's "Dream Geometry" in Lewis Nordan's Fiction; 14. Music of the Swamp; 15. Wonderful Geographies; 16. The Nordan Shakespeare; 17. An Interview with Lewis Nordan: 'Bookmark' (1998); 18. "The Day When the Swamp Elves Ran out of the Canebrake" : A Conversation with Lewis Nordan (2006); 19. Buddy on the Plains: An Interview (2009); Works Cited; Contributors; Index. |
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Lewis Nordan: Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope examines and celebrates the work of southern writer Lewis & ldquo;Buddy & rdquo; Nordan, whose stories reveal his own pain and humanity and in their honesty force us to recognize ourselves within them. Written by scholars and fiction writers who represent a fascinating range of experience & mdash;from a Shakespearean scholar to English professors to a former student of Nordan & rsquo;s & mdash;this is a rich array of essays, poems, and visual arts in tribute to this increasingly important writer. The collection deepens the base of scholarship on Nordan, and c. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Nordan, Lewis -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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Nordan, Lewis. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Arbeit, Marcel.
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Baker, Barbara A., 1961-
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Beard, Kate.
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Broncano, Manuel.
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Crowther, Hal.
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Dufresne, John.
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Dupuy, Edward J.
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Edgerton, Clyde.
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Maguire, Roberta S.
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Martin, Lee.
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McDougall, Jo.
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Noble, Donald R.
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Nordan, Lewis.
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Relihan, Constance C.
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Rudnicki, Robert.
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Tebbetts, Terrell L.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Baker, Barbara A. Lewis Nordan : Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2012 9780817356811 |
| ISBN |
9780817385743 (electronic book) |
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0817385746 (electronic book) |
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9780817356811 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0817356819 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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