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… From Combray to Ithaca; Or, the “Southernness” of Southern … that the “Southernness” of Southern literature is an ingredient, a quantity, whose presence in a work of literature … that not only was not written by a Southern author, but is also not remotely concerned with the South, with a view …

… will ignore the world beyond the barnyard. Finding a comfortable roost in the chicken house, he will grow gray … doesn’t hurt the guilt, but it sure ruins the literature. I also banished novelists whose first names are Thomas. Mann, … to thee blithe spirit” or responding to a hearty “Heard melodies are sweet” with a wink and a tripping “but those …

… Weapon Devised by Humankind?   Thomas Pynchon found an accommodating symbol in the Aggregat 4 (aka the V-2) rocket, a … of cause and effect signaled the story’s other reversals. An extensive “System,” as Pynchon termed it, built to … minds” to solve the technical problem of obliterating “bodies, minds, cities, and landscapes” at ever greater scale? …

… who do extraordinary things worthy of the big screen—to complement our  Winter 2013 issue . This installment … There were the affluent and middle-class people, and we also had a huge sub-prime market—people with marginal … Virginia; she blogs regularly for VQR. Visit her website at  jenniferniesslein.com . By Jennifer Niesslein …

… apparatus of a roaring trade, the paraphernalia of physical comfort and convenience, are not civilization, and there is … and. refuse to eat a bite until the Indian civil disobedience movement came to terms, the trouble would be over in … prudence requires our society to develop more available points of sympathetic contact than the one which industry …