TY - BOOK AU - Baker,Barbara A. ED - Project Muse. TI - Lewis Nordan: humor, heartbreak, and hope SN - 9780817385743 AV - PS3564.O55 Z75 2012 U1 - 813/.54 22 PY - 2012/// CY - Auburn, Ala., Tuscaloosa PB - Pebble Hill, University of Alabama Press KW - Nordan, Lewis KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - "A Pebble Hill book."; Essays based on talks delivered at the symposium "Lewis Nordan and the Heartbreaking Laughter of Transcendence and Hope" sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University in January 2009; Includes bibliographical references and index; Don't cry for me, Itta Bena / Lewis Nordan -- The strangely familiar world of Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair / Lee Martin -- Sugar amongst the chickens / Clyde Edgerton -- Redbird / Clyde Edgerton -- Lewis Nordan and one critic : the archer or the arrow catcher? / Hal Crowther -- Transcendence and hope in the blues life and life writing of Lewis Nordan / Barbara A. Baker -- Life as a set of games and invented stories in Lewis Nordan's fictional memoir / Marcel Arbeit -- Happiness is a warm gun : guns and love in Lewis Nordan's work / Edward J. Dupuy -- The "idea of order" in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi : scapegoating and redemption in The sharpshooter blues / Roberta S. Maguire -- Faulkner's ghost in Lewis Nordan's The sharpshooter blues / Terrell L. Tebbetts -- Lewis Nordan's southern magic / Manuel Broncano -- Lewis (Buddy) Nordan : poet of prose / Jo McDougall -- Eulogizing space : Eudora Welty's "still moments" and Gaston Bachelard's "dream geometry" in Lewis Nordan's fiction / Robert Rudnicki -- Music of the swamp / Kate Beard -- Wonderful geographies / John Dufresne -- The Nordan Shakespeare / Constance C. Relihan -- An interview with Lewis Nordan : Bookmark (1998) / Don Noble -- "The day when the swamp elves ran out of the canebrake" : a conversation with Lewis Nordan (2006) / Manuel Broncano -- Buddy on the plains : an interview (2009) / Barbara A. Baker UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817385743/ ER -