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100 1 $aChoiński, Michał,$d1983-$eauthor.
245 10 $aSouthern hyperboles :$bmetafigurative strategies of narration /$cMichał Choiński.
264 1 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c[2020]
300 $a1 online resource (x, 207 pages).
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490 1 $aSouthern literary studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aHyperbole and the South: figurative modes of cognition -- Rites of passage: Katharine Anne Porter -- The polyphony of the past: William Faulkner -- Breaking out of hyperbole: Lillian Smith and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin -- Hyperbolic dissolution: Tennessee Williams -- Hyperbolic epiphany: Flannery O'Connor -- To kill the watchman: Harper Lee -- Coda.
520 $a"In "Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration," Michał Choiński confronts the often paradoxical and excessive elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative modes and representation strategies in works produced from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. With renewed attention to renderings of the gothic and grotesque, Choiński argues that modernist literature from the U.S. South often deploys the trope of hyperbole, which escalates, contrasts, and disrupts the sense of the normal. By focusing on how writers processed the South via narratives of hyperbolic excess, "Southern Hyperboles" explores a mode of comprehension forged from the tensions of a segregated, patriarchal society driven by racial and social decorum. Moving chronologically, Choiński traces distinct manifestations of hyperbolic metalogic in the works of seven authors: Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Lillian Smith, Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, and Harper Lee. The mode of hyperbole identified by Choiński relies on a clash of opposites, along with the rapid intensification of disharmonious ideas pushed to extremes, leading to an ultimate break in established decorum. The shock produced by hyperbole generates a momentary state of confusion that soon dissipates, allowing recipients to reach a new understanding of their surrounding world. Melding an innovative use of rhetorical theory with finegrained analysis of literary texts, "Southern Hyperboles" elucidates contradictory and interlocking issues related to memory, social trauma, grotesquerie, and troubled mythologies that permeate the U.S. South"--$cProvided by publisher.
588 $aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 13, 2020).
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHyperbole in literature.
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650 7 $aHyperbole in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00965720
651 7 $aSouthern States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01244550
648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 0 $aElectronic books.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 08 $iPrint version:$aChoiński, Michał, 1983-$tSouthern hyperboles$dBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020.$z9780807172988$w(DLC) 2019050596
830 0 $aSouthern literary studies.
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