I'm taking a writing class this semester and so far I have a strong B. I know, kind of surprising as when I read my posts I shake my head and roll my eyes at my typos and errors. But, my academic writing is different.

Anyhow, I have a rough draft to write on one of the readings that we did. I did my reader's response comparing Faulkner to a painter. He truly "paints" with his descriptive words. In fact, it's almost humorous even when he is describing a gruesome scene. I want to further my response on Faulkner's use of adjectives, similes, and metaphors and linguistics.

Last night I searched and search and keep coming up somewhat empty handed. I did, however, find an article/essay - "An Examination of Southern Dialect as Seen in the Works of William Faulkner" - that I found interesting. But have no clue where to research some of this further in the sense of linguistics of the deep south (which this knowledge will help me in my anthropology class).

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions? A good book/reference? Website? (I didn't find anything on the Faulkner on the Web site).

I don't know much about linguistics and dialect of the deep south (Mississippi). Again, any ideas?