Cathedrals of kudzu : a personal landscape of the South /

Cathedrals of kudzu : a personal landscape of the South /

In these essays, one of the most influential Southern journalists of his generation sorts out a whole warehouse of Southern idiosyncrasy and iconography, including the Southern belle, Faulkner, James Dickey, Stonewall Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, guns, dogs, fathers, trees, George Wallace, Elvis, Doc W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crowther, Hal
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2000
Baton Rouge : ©2000
Baton Rouge : [2000]
Subjects:
1970-
1980-2020
Since 1970
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism
American literature
Civilization
Intellectual life
Social conditions
Social history
Southern States > Civilization
Southern States > Intellectual life
Southern States > Social conditions
United States > Civilization > 1970-
United States > Intellectual life
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
Southern States
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Fred Hobson
  • I The Pen: This Is Our Swamp
  • The Last Wolverine: James Dickey (1923-1997)
  • Cathedrals of Kudzu
  • Strangers in the Swamp
  • A Knight in White Flannel
  • Percy Among the Nightingales
  • The Tennessee Stud
  • Burying a False Witness
  • A Cobbler's Petition
  • The Paris of the South
  • II. The Sword: In Stonewall's Shadow
  • In Stonewall's Shadow
  • Eating Rats as Vicksburg
  • The Family of Man
  • The Unteachables
  • The Twelve Apostles
  • From Auschwitz to Alabama
  • Requiem for a Bantamweight
  • The Last Southern Hero
  • III. The Cross: Varieties of Religious Experience
  • A Feast of Snakes
  • Angels on the Interstate
  • The Hounds of Heaven
  • The King and I
  • Cross Purposes
  • You Are My Sunshine
  • God's Holy Fire
  • IV. Sweet Home Carolina: But Now I See
  • But Now I See
  • On the Road Again
  • Unsafe at Any Speed
  • Father, Forgive Me
  • The Cedars of Lebanon.
  • Foreword / Fred Hobson
  • I The Pen: This Is Our Swamp
  • The Last Wolverine: James Dickey (1923-1997)
  • Cathedrals of Kudzu
  • Strangers in the Swamp
  • A Knight in White Flannel
  • Percy Among the Nightingales
  • The Tennessee Stud
  • Burying a False Witness
  • A Cobbler's Petition
  • The Paris of the South
  • II. The Sword: In Stonewall's Shadow
  • In Stonewall's Shadow
  • Eating Rats as Vicksburg
  • The Family of Man
  • The Unteachables
  • The Twelve Apostles
  • From Auschwitz to Alabama
  • Requiem for a Bantamweight
  • The Last Southern Hero
  • III. The Cross: Varieties of Religious Experience
  • A Feast of Snakes
  • Angels on the Interstate
  • The Hounds of Heaven
  • The King and I
  • Cross Purposes
  • You Are My Sunshine
  • God's Holy Fire
  • IV. Sweet Home Carolina: But Now I See
  • But Now I See
  • On the Road Again
  • Unsafe at Any Speed
  • Father, Forgive Me
  • The Cedars of Lebanon.

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