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Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor
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Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor By Barbara Bennett. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. 135 pp. $30.00
Flannery O'Connor captured the essence of the peculiar quality of southern literature when she said, "the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy." The truth of her revelation hinged upon a readership aware of both the possibilities and purpose of comedy. Barbara Bennett's Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor offers a lesson in the way in which today's southern women writers employ humor as a literary device. Bennett seeks to highlight numerous …
