{"title":"Whitman's Sketches of New Orleans: A City, and an Artist, by Glimpses","authors":"B. O’Neill","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"75 1","pages":"111 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43495398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The World as Tale: Ontological Dynamism and Metaphysical Unity in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing","authors":"Rick Elmore, J. Elmore","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"75 1","pages":"61 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44870948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Death in the Reverend's House: The Three-part Allegory in William Faulkner's Light in August","authors":"Brian K. Reed","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"75 1","pages":"79 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47596264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christina K. Adkins, I. Hopkins, Rick Elmore, J. Elmore, Brian K. Reed, John Zheng, B. O’Neill
{"title":"\"Soft White Cotton and Blood\": Frederick Douglass, Mary Chesnut, and Fertility Tropes in the Reconstruction Diary of The Wind Done Gone","authors":"Christina K. Adkins, I. Hopkins, Rick Elmore, J. Elmore, Brian K. Reed, John Zheng, B. O’Neill","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"75 1","pages":"1 - 110 - 111 - 116 - 35 - 37 - 59 - 61 - 78 - 79 - 97 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41998224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Taken for 'white'\": Passing in Charles W. Chesnutt's Short Stories","authors":"I. Hopkins","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"75 1","pages":"37 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46104766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jazz Poetry as a Message of African American Culture: An Interview with Lenard D. Moore","authors":"John Zheng","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"75 1","pages":"110 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45654313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496842701.003.0006
Tom Nolan
{"title":"The Sleuth of Pinehurst Street","authors":"Tom Nolan","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496842701.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496842701.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the literary affinities of Eudora Welty and the detective novelist Ross Macdonald.It posits that Welty, in her 1963 story “Where is the Voice Coming From?,” realized to an extreme degree the dictum Macdonald put forth in his 1953 lecture “The Scene of the Crime” for writers of the most serious crime fiction: that they should “submit themselves” to “the involuntary anguish of the criminal, the insane, the dispossessed,” in order to “present a true vision of evil … and leave a residue of terror and understanding pity, as tragedy does.”How well this fits with Welty's description of her own approach to fiction, as exemplified in her first-person-voiced story based on the Medgar Evers assassination: “What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who is not myself.”","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"115-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147907562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Without Even His Hat Took Off\": Faulkner's Sanctuary","authors":"W. Brevda","doi":"10.1353/mss.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"74 1","pages":"393 - 422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41929637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}