Ed Piacentino
Biographic Data
| ID | 5702804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ed Piacentino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ed |
| FAMILY NAME | Piacentino |
| SIGNATURE | PIACENTINO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | High Point University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On Second Thought
Editors:I found Sam Chesters's “metamodern” framework for satire in “Don't Go All Earnest on Us” useful and encouraging, especially in an era in which, despite George Saunders's own increasing popularity, satire is viewed with skepticism by much of the reading public and the publishing industry.1I was a student of Saunders's two decades ago, and even then he was warning me against my tendency toward what Steven Weisenburger refers to as “degenera…
Two Views of Niagara: Doesticks and Mark Twain
The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor
The Old Southwest flourished between 1830 and 1860, but its brand of humor lives on in the writings of Mark Twain, the novels of William Faulkner, the television series The Beverly Hillbillies, the material of comedian Jeff Foxworthy, and even cyberspace, where nonsoutherners can come up to speed on subjects like hickphonics. The first book on its subject, The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor engages topics ranging from folklore to feminism…
The Narrative Forms of Southern Community
First Books: The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama
The Stuff of Our Forebears: Willa Cather's Southern Heritage
Beginning with an examination of Cather's Virginia childhood and the Southern influences that continued to mold her during the Nebraska years, McDonald traces the effects of those influences in several of Cather's novels. The patterns that emerge are often surprising. They reveal not only Cather's strong ideological connection to the pastoral but also the political position implicit in her choice of that particular mode. Further analysis of Cathe…
Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Ellen Glasgow and a Woman's Traditions
Ellen Glasgow wrote and published nineteen novels as well as poems, short stories, essays, reviews, and an autobiography (published posthumously) in a career that spanned nearly fifty years. Until now, her writings have not been subject to feminist revaluation in the way that works of such writers as Charlotte Perkins Gilman or Willa Cather have been. In Ellen Glasgow and a Woman's Traditions Pamela R. Matthews initiates such a revaluation by tak…
From Nationalism to Secessionism: The Changing Fiction of William Gilmore Simms
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From Nationalism to Secessionism: The Changing Fiction of William Gilmore Simms
Ellen Glasgow and a Woman's Traditions
Ellen Glasgow wrote and published nineteen novels as well as poems, short stories, essays, reviews, and an autobiography (published posthumously) in a career that spanned nearly fifty years. Until now, her writings have not been subject to feminist revaluation in the way that works of such writers as Charlotte Perkins Gilman or Willa Cather have been. In Ellen Glasgow and a Woman's Traditions Pamela R. Matthews initiates such a revaluation by tak…
Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
The Stuff of Our Forebears: Willa Cather's Southern Heritage
Beginning with an examination of Cather's Virginia childhood and the Southern influences that continued to mold her during the Nebraska years, McDonald traces the effects of those influences in several of Cather's novels. The patterns that emerge are often surprising. They reveal not only Cather's strong ideological connection to the pastoral but also the political position implicit in her choice of that particular mode. Further analysis of Cathe…
The Narrative Forms of Southern Community
First Books: The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama
The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor
The Old Southwest flourished between 1830 and 1860, but its brand of humor lives on in the writings of Mark Twain, the novels of William Faulkner, the television series The Beverly Hillbillies, the material of comedian Jeff Foxworthy, and even cyberspace, where nonsoutherners can come up to speed on subjects like hickphonics. The first book on its subject, The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor engages topics ranging from folklore to feminism…
Two Views of Niagara: Doesticks and Mark Twain
On Second Thought
Editors:I found Sam Chesters's “metamodern” framework for satire in “Don't Go All Earnest on Us” useful and encouraging, especially in an era in which, despite George Saunders's own increasing popularity, satire is viewed with skepticism by much of the reading public and the publishing industry.1I was a student of Saunders's two decades ago, and even then he was warning me against my tendency toward what Steven Weisenburger refers to as “degenera…
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