"The Southern Gothic" is just a fancy way of saying

Pretty much.

>>8124906
This.

corncobbers B T F O

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>>8124852
I would be happy if increasing education levels in the Appalachians created a new genre

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>>8124852
>In this post Someone who never read Flannery O'connor.
>Unless Red-neck is just a slur for Southern People.

Either way poor form.

>>8124963
dumb croat.

>>8124852
'Books about rednecks' would be 'Southern'
'Southern Gothic' is 'really sad books about rednecks'

>>8124963
>muh corn
>muh dirt
>muh spitting

we wuz dixie n shit

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>>8124982
>muh dialectic
>muh Zeus
>muh boy love

we wuz athenians n shit

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>inb4 Nabokov memers

Yankees, get the fuck of my board.

No, rednecks is a recent invention.

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>>8125176
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Haaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww!!!

>>8124963
> Wise Blood

literally some redneck and his deranged protestant world view

>>8124970
I didn't read wise blood yet.
And why do people feel the need to mention me so often?

>>8126708
How doesn't O'Connor qualify as 'books about rednecks.'

The Violent Bear It Away is very redneck, as well as the characters and settings of most stories.

There's a reason Harmony Korine says O'Connor is his favorite writer. He too is "The Southern Gothic."

>>8126757
>How doesn't O'Connor qualify as 'books about rednecks.'
I don't know, I think they are late about rednecks. I didn't make that comment.
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>>8125018
He had a point about Faulkner's provincialism. I always find Faulkner to be inferior to other great authors of the period because he's not only physically but spiritually and mentally stuck in the south. Even his transformative efforts fail to transcend that limitation he had.

>>8126899
I fail to see how that applies to Faulkner but not Joyce or Nabokov

The one was MUH DUBLIN PARALYSIS N SHIET and the other was MUH UPPER CLASS MEMORIES N SHIET.

Both tried to smuggle poetry into their boring prose. Borges was right, Faulkner could do what Joyce could not; perfectly combine style and substance.