The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction [God Not Only Speaks But Sings Tongues of Fire Interview- Saintly Outlaws Full Day Interview- Proceeding Out from Calamity Roadside Resurrection Interview- On Being Southern, Catholic, & Female From Slow Poison Interview- Something's Got a Hold on Me Hope of Zion Interview- Mississippi Madness, Mississippi Magic From Cecelia's Sin Interview- Resting on the Bedrock of Original Sin This Is the Only Time I'll Tell It Interview- Ancient Spells & Incantations Strange & Tragic Ballad of Mabel Pearsall Interview- Celebrating True & Lively Word New Life Interview- Writer as Shaman From Scar Lover Interview- Garden Paradoxes From Raney Interview- When I'm Fog on a Coffin Lid

Ketchin, Susan ; Lee Smith; Reynolds Price; Larry Brown; Sheila Bosworth; Sandra Hollin Flowers; Will Campbell; Doris Betts; Randall Kenan; Mary Ward Brown; Harry Crews;Clyde Edgerton; Allan Gurganus ; design, Sally Hamlin

ISBN 10: 0878056696 / ISBN 13: 9780878056699

Edité par University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 1994, 1994

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1st ed., 1st printing ; xix, 408 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780878056699, 9780878056705, 0878056696, 087805670X ; OCLC 28631374 ; LCCN 93030875 ; LOC No PS261 .K416 1994 ; Dewey 813/.5409382 ; Pictorila color stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Lee Smith. God Not Only Speaks But Sings. "Tongues of Fire" Interview -- Reynolds Price. Saintly Outlaws. "Full Day" Interview -- Larry Brown. Proceeding Out from Calamity. "A Roadside Resurrection" Interview -- Sheila Bosworth. On Being Southern, Catholic, and Female. From Slow Poison. Interview -- Sandra Hollin Flowers. Something's Got a Hold on Me. "Hope of Zion" Interview -- Will Campbell. Mississippi Madness, Mississippi Magic. From Cecelia's Sin. Interview -- Doris Betts. Resting on the Bedrock of Original Sin. "This Is the Only Time I'll Tell It" Interview -- Randall Kenan. Ancient Spells and Incantations. "The Strange and Tragic Ballad of Mabel Pearsall" Interview -- Mary Ward Brown. Celebrating the True and Lively Word. "A New Life" Interview -- Harry Crews. The Writer as Shaman. From Scar Lover. Interview -- Clyde Edgerton. A Garden of Paradoxes. From Raney. Interview -- Allan Gurganus. When I'm Fog on a Coffin Lid. "It Had Wings." ; "Old-time religion" has been and still is a uniquely potent force in shaping the imaginations of southern fiction writers. A little more than a generation ago, Flannery O'Connor made a startling observation about herself and her fellow southerners: "By and large, " she said, "people in the South still conceive of humanity in theological terms. While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The Southerner who isn't convinced of it is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God." Still earlier in the century H. L. Mencken wrote that the South consisted of a "cesspool of Baptists, a miasma of Methodists, snake charmers, phony real estate operators, and syphillitic evangelists." This book explores the roles that various strands of southern religion, most prominently Evangelical Protestantism (both black and white) and Catholicism, have played in shaping contemporary southern fiction. The Christ-Haunted Landscape collects works by twelve southerners living and working in the South - Larry Brown, Reynolds Price, Allan Gurganus, Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, Harry Crews, Will Campbell, Doris Betts, Sheila Bosworth, Mary Ward Brown, Randall Kenan, and Sandra Hollin blowers. Susan Ketchin has included a descriptive profile and an original interview with each author, critical commentaries on each author's works as a whole, and representative fiction (short story or excerpt from a novel). Her introduction discusses the religious and cultural forces that have impact on today's imaginative writers whose fiction is enhanced by the legacy of Faulkner, O'Connor, and Percy.; Susan Ketchin is the author of The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction. Formerly fiction editor at Algonquin Books and DoubleTake magazine, she is currently a teaching research associate at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. ; FINE.

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• Titre: The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction [God Not Only Speaks But Sings Tongues of Fire Interview- Saintly Outlaws Full Day Interview- Proceeding Out from Calamity Roadside Resurrection Interview- On Being Southern, Catholic, & Female From Slow Poison Interview- Something's Got a Hold on Me Hope of Zion Interview- Mississippi Madness, Mississippi Magic From Cecelia's Sin Interview- Resting on the Bedrock of Original Sin This Is the Only Time I'll Tell It Interview- ...
• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 1994
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0878056696
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780878056699
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• Type de livre: Book

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Book by Ketchin Susan

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Here are Susan Ketchin's discerning interviews with twelve southerners living and writing in the South, and along with a piece of fiction by each are her penetrating commentaries about the impact of southern religious experience on their work.

A little more than a generation ago Flannery O'Connor made a startling observation about herself and her fellow southerners: "By and large," she said, "people in the South still conceive of humanity in theological terms. While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The Southerner who isn't convinced of it is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God."

Guided by O'Connor's perceptive commentary about southerners in general, Susan Ketchin has created a deeply revealing collection that mirrors the pervasive role of religion in the literature by the recent generation of notable southern writers. Ketchin confirms that "old-time religion" remains a potent force in the literature of the contemporary South.

Susan Ketchin, a writer, editor, and musician, lives in Orange County, North Carolina.