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Published by Independent Publishing Network, 2021
ISBN 10: 1800499922ISBN 13: 9781800499928
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. O' Connor, Peter (illustrator). Book is in NEW condition. 1.21.
Published by Tuscaloosa, AL and London: The University of Alabama Press, 2003., 2003
ISBN 10: 0817312676ISBN 13: 9780817312671
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
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WARMLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO SOUTHERN LITERATURE SCHOLAR NOEL POLK. viii, 168 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed with some bumping at edges. Black boards, spine ends bumped. Author's seven-line ink inscription on the title page: "To Dearest Noel, | In the spirit of | aberrant Southerness, | . . . | Much love, | Sarah/x." Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. With Acknowledgements, "Introduction: Carson McCullers and the Grotesque," "Conclusion: Final Thoughts on the Grotesque," "Critical Survey: McCullers and the Southern Grotesque," Notes, Works Cited, and Index. Features four chapters titled as: "Freakish Adolescents: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' and 'The Member of the Wedding;'" "Queer Grotesques: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' and 'Reflections in a Golden Eye;'" "The Masquerade: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'The Member of the Wedding,' and 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe;'" and "Two Bodies in One: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' and 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.'" Noel Polk (1943-2012), Professor Emeritus of English at Mississippi State University, edited the school's THE MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY and earned renown fro his scholarship regarding Southern literature, particularly the work of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. ISBN 0817312676.