The Secret Country
Subtitle: Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips' Cryptic Fiction (Costerus New Series 165)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9789042021402
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; British Isles; USA; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: "The Secret Country is the first monograph on the work of the contemporary American novelist Jayne Anne Phillips. Through detailed and innovative textual analysis this study considers the southern aspects of Phillips' writing. Robertson demonstrates the importance of Phillips' place within the southern literary canon by identifying the echoes of William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter and Edgar Allan Poe that permeate her work."--Jacket.