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Southern Hyperboles: Southern Literary Studies

Autor Micha¿ Choi¿ski Editat de Scott Romine
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2020
In Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration, Michal Choiński confronts the often paradoxical and excessive elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative modes and representation strategies in works produced from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. With renewed attention to renderings of the gothic and grotesque, Choiński argues that modernist literature from the U.S. South often deploys the trope of hyperbole, which escalates contrasts and disrupts the sense of the normal.
By focusing on how writers processed the South via narratives of hyperbolic excess, Southern Hyperboles explores a mode of comprehension forged from the tensions of a segregated, patriarchal society driven by racial and social decorum. Moving chronologically, Choiński traces distinct manifestations of hyperbolic metalogic in the works of seven authors: Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Lillian Smith, Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, and Harper Lee. The mode of hyperbole identified by Choiński relies on a clash of opposites, along with the rapid intensification of disharmonious ideas pushed to extremes, leading to an ultimate break in established decorum. The shock produced by hyperbole generates a momentary state of confusion that soon dissipates, allowing recipients to reach a new understanding of their surrounding world. Melding an innovative use of rhetorical theory with fine--grained analysis of literary texts, Southern Hyperboles elucidates contradictory and interlocking issues related to memory, social trauma, grotesquerie, and troubled mythologies that permeate the U.S. South.--Michael Toolan, author of The Stylistics of Fiction: A Literary-Linguistic Approach
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780807172988
ISBN-10: 0807172987
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Louisiana State University Press
Seria Southern Literary Studies


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Michal Choiński is assistant professor in the Institute of English Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His previous books include The Rhetoric of the Revival: The Language of the Great Awakening Preachers.