Among my internet procrastinations this week, I've been looking up some of my favorite southern gothic short stories online...some I haven't read since Junior High! All of them are fantastic and more than a little spooky (think dead people and creepy old southern mansions), so turn out the lights and get yourself some reading done! (Hey, at least you'll have done something this week!)
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
Barn Burning by William Faulkner
* Important to note: many of these stories (especially Faulkner's writings) use southern rhetoric that's pretty evident of the racism in the culture at the time...and I obviously don't condone any of its usage. It does, however, begin to give us a picture of the problems (and consequent implications) of racism and hierarchies (arguably still present?) in the South.
There could be a pretty nifty paper topic here if you want to explore these ideas/texts further....Feel very free to use literary narratives! As a literary theorist myself, I certainly think there's fine work to be done on all sorts of big analytical levels in some good ol' textual analysis...
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