A Peculiarly Southern Form of Ugliness: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Gleeson-White
Keyword(s):  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Eudora Welty ◽  
Carson Mccullers ◽  
Southern Form

The sound and the fury of Southern American literature

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazolla
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Literature ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eudora Welty ◽  
Carson Mccullers ◽  
Robert Penn Warren ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
John Crowe Ransom

The South of the United States presents, in the twentieth century, a remarkable flowering in the area of Literature. It has produced, especially in the first half of the century, more good writers than any other region in the country. Writers of the stature of Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Carson McCullers, to name just a few, together with William Faulkner, the greatest of all, have been responsible for a period of such creativity that it has come to be known as "the Southern Renaissance."

A World Almost Rotten: The Fiction of William Gay1

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Giraldi
Keyword(s):  
Cormac Mccarthy ◽  
Eudora Welty ◽  
Walker Percy ◽  
Southern Writers ◽  
Carson Mccullers

This chapter discusses the fiction of William Gay, one of American literature's most authentic chroniclers of life in the Rough South. Gay died at his home in Hohenwald, Tennessee, on February 23, 2012, at the age of seventy. His books were crafted from darkness: The Long Home (1999), Provinces of Night (2000), I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down (2002), and Twilight (2006). Along with Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, and Harry Crews, Gay wrote about the lives of the underclass with both understanding and sincerity. Many important southern writers who came before—Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Walker Percy—seem timid in comparison to Gay and his nightmarish depictions. Known for his unflinching portrayals of human cruelty in his fiction, Gay was in life a mild and dignified man.

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