Southern literature

The concept of Master and slave is seen in numerous works by southern authors. Not always defined as master and slave, there are clear understandings of a superior and inferior ideology featured in southern literature. The concept of master and slave dates back to biblical times when Moses freed his people from the Egyptians. His people were given the title of chosen by God with which many thought themselves as superior than all others and let it be known. This mindset many adopted became the…

In southern gothic and gothic literature, the characters can be described as misunderstood or strange, settings are unusual, and the storylines are eye-opening. Gothic literature is haunting, ironic, dark, and distressful, southern gothic adds grotesque and surreal factors. Irony and emotional distress are different, in fact far from it, but it can be ironic in the ways emotional distress is inflicted or caused. Racism and dark settings are two abstract elements that cannot be commonly tied…

Unusual or supernatural events are common elements in Southern Gothic literature. From the beginning of the story, the author utilizes a surreal undertone in a sequence of obscure events to highlight how a personal interest when pursued without regard for others can lead to disaster. The first of these events begins with a seemingly innocent decision by the grandmother to bring her cat along on the family vacation. “She didn’t intend for the cat to be left alone in the house for three days…

important writers of American Southern Literature. He won a nobel prize and few people knew about. William Faulkner was into History that's what he liked. William Faulkner liked to write novels and short stories. William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. (famousauthors.com). He lived most of his childhood in oxford, Mississippi where he moved to in 1907. (famousauthors.com) Another place he lived to was New Orleans, Louisiana. (American Literature) The American…

Many authors relate their past lives to their books sometimes. William Faulkner uses southern gothic writing, flashbacks, and how he grew up to connect to the short story “ A Rose for Emily”. First, William Faulkner used his style of writing southern gothic writing. Based on what he learned southern gothic writing was interested in the code of anti-social conduct. He uses an old mansion and decay in the story “A Rose for Emily”. Emily Grierson keeps the body of her father, until they come to…

and particularly praised for his Southern literature. He is known for his authenticity when it comes to the Southern way of life. He often used his real life experiences and included the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha which was based on the real-life county he grew up in many of his stories "A Rose for Emily" included. His short story "A Rose for Emily" I believe makes a great correlation between characters and aspects from his story to the Southern post-Civil War era. The…

was considered to be a masterpiece among Southern literature during its time. There was no clear explanation to why the Southern Renaissance came to be. The Southern Renaissance wasn’t exactly a rebirth as the term renaissance suggests, but rather just a birth of Southern…

influential as As I Lay Dying with another great American work of literature, the task could be achieved in a variety of different ways and assembled in several different themes. The themes of love, loss, betrayal and redemption are rampant throughout the entire scope of American literature of this time period; but if one were to choose two things to combine and contrast, it would be the wisest decision to choose agrarianism and the Southern Renaissance, on a count of the migrations taking place…

Certainly, the name Mark Twain is a well-known name in American Literature for most people. The three most popular modes of writing during Twain’s writing career can be applied to various points in his life. Important to realize is it would be obvious that Twain would favor towards one style of writing over the other. Granted, realist typically is regionalist in the sense that the real-life stories must take place in certain areas of the world, which would signify the accuracy of speech, history…

Twain and Sedaris used their characters to emphasize the important issues of their times. Use of the special words helped Mark Twain to explain the gap between Southern and Eastern people. That device remained relevant in a century, when David Sedaris was writing his piece of comedy. In fact, both authors wanted to play with the contrast – south and east, clever and stupid, educated and uneducated, refined and coarse…