Lsu Press: 854 books
The Life of Johnny Reb
The Common Soldier of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
In this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers' letters and diaries, Wiley explains who these men were and why they fought, how they reacted to combat and the strain of prolonged...
Resisting History
Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
In a major reinterpretation, Resisting History reveals that women, as subjects of writing and as writing subjects themselves, played a far more important role in shaping the landscape of modernism than has been previously acknowledged. Here Barbara Ladd offers powerful new readings of three southern...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Since its publication in 1936, Gone with the Wind has held a unique position in American cultural memory, both for its particular vision of the American South in the age of the Civil War and for its often controversial portrayals of race, gender, and class. New Approaches to “Gone with the Wind”...
Yoknapatawpha Blues
Faulkner's Fiction and Southern Roots Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
During the 1920s and 1930s, Mississippi produced two of the most significant influences upon twentieth-century culture: the modernist fiction of William Faulkner and the recorded blues songs of African American musicians like Charley Patton, Geeshie Wiley, and Robert Johnson. In Yoknapatawpha Blues,...
From Nothing
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
In her third collection, From Nothing, Anya Krugovoy Silver follows a mother, wife, and artist as illness and loss of loved ones disrupt the peaceful flow of life. Grounded in the traditions of meditative and contemplative poetry, From Nothing confronts disease and mortality with the healing possibilities...
Ledger of Crossroads
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In James Brasfield’s Ledger of Crossroads, layered by light and shadow, the crossroads emerge from distinct yet inseparable geographies. Grounded in the sensual world, the poems fuse American and Eastern European landscapes: “the char of silence and beauty, / brick foundations of what was here,...
Swamper
Letters from a Louisiana Swamp Rabbit
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Swamper, a fictitious swamp rabbit, lives in the bottomland hardwood forest, or overflow swamp, which is a very real environment. In twelve "letters" addressed to his human friends, Swamper shares his vivid observations about life in a Louisiana swamp. With excitement and captivating detail,...
The Richmond Theater Fire
Early America's First Great Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of a melodramatic tale of bandits, ghosts, and murder, a small fire kindled behind the backdrop. Within...
by John Lang
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
In the most extensive work to date on major poets from the mountain South, John Lang takes as his point of departure an oft-quoted remark by Jim Wayne Miller: "Appalachian literature is -- and has always been -- as decidedly worldly, secular, and profane in its outlook as the [region's] traditional...
The Language of Vision
Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
The Language of Vision celebrates and interprets the complementary expressions of photography and literature in the South. Southern imagery and text affect one another, explains Joseph R. Millichap, as intertextual languages and influential visions. Focusing on the 1930s, and including significant...
Frontiersman
Daniel Boone and the Making of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate, coonskin cap-wearing patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. The scarcity of surviving autobiographical material has allowed tellers of his story to fashion a Boone of their own liking, and his myth has evolved in countless...
The Hemingway Short Story
A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In The Hemingway Short Story: A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers, Robert Paul Lamb delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingway's exemplary stories to illuminate the author's methods of construction and to show how craft criticism...
Resin
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
In poems of quiet force, Geri Doran maps the fragility of human connection and the irreducible fact of grief. From the communal ruptures of Chechnya and Rwanda to the personal dislocations that attend great loss, Resin weighs frailty against responsibility, damage against the desires of the heart....
Unquiet Things
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Grounded in wonder and fueled by an impulse to praise, the poems in James Davis May's debut collection, Unquiet Things, grapple with skepticism, violence, and death to generate lasting insights into the human experience. With compassion and humor, this second and final volume in Claudia Emerson's...