SSSL promotes reading, writing, and dialogue about the literature of the American South and the cultures from which that literature has sprung.
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature on MLA Commons 4 months agoJames Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited Shadowy Autobiography: Robert Penn Warren and Other Makers of American Literature in the group
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoMy latest book publication, due from U of Tennessee P in 2020.
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Joseph R. Millichap started the topic Photography and Southern Culture in the forum
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe Southern Quarterly
Special Issue: Photography and the Shaping of Southern Culture
Guest Editor: Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky Univ. <joseph.millichap@wku.edu>
Publication Schedule: Volume 51, Number 4, Summer 2015
Submissions for the 2015 special issue should relate photography to any other aspect of culture in the South, with both…[Read more]