Hmmm. I guess I was thinking more of the "gothic" elements to
Poe's work than the "Southern." You all make a good point Poe
doesn't employ any real Southern feeling of place in his
settings.
That said, Southern Gothic by definition uses Poesque gothic
elements (i.e., the big house, characters on the brink of
insanity and racked with guilt, feelings of entrapment).
Moving beyond Faulkner, Southern authors like Capote,
McCullers, O'Connor, and Harry Crews have further defined
this subgenre. I'm not sure who carries the baton for the new
generation
(Crews recently retired from teaching).
But I've strayed too far from our hb/noir topic. We have had
some postings talking about Crews and his hb writing.
Ed
--- Robison Michael R CNIN <
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil> wrote:
> Thank you, Ed. I've read about a dozen Poe stories.
He's
> considered
> the inventor of the modern detective story and I've
read all
> (3) his
> Dupin stories and I'm willing to give him credit for
that.
> And stories
> like Cask of Amontilado, The Red Mask, and Fall of
the House
> of Usher
> absolutely reek of noirdom. Didn't even mention
Tell-Tale
> Heart, did
> I? Think Jim Thompson read that one? ;-)
>
> I can't say that I've ever got a sense of the South
from any
> of his
> stories, though. The limited number I have read
always have
> this
> highbrow British air to them. I think that's
probably because
> so
> many of them are set in Europe. I think the Dupin
ones were
> in Paris.
>
> Can you think of any that have a Southern "air" to
them?
>
> Thanks again, miker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Lynskey [mailto:
e_lynskey@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:55
AM
> To:
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> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Southern Gothic
>
>
> You could advance an argument that Poe was the
true
> grandaddy of Southern Gothic. I mean if
Virginia
> is still considered Southern.
>
> Ed Lynskey
> Born and bred in VA
>
>
> --- Robison Michael R CNIN <
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil> wrote:
> > I'm thinking that the Southern Gothic subgenre
started with
> > Faulkner's SANCTUARY (1931). Is this a halfway
reasonable
> > assumption? Are there any other candidates that
might be
> > pointed to as starting it?
> >
> > Thanks, miker
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