The Fable of the Southern Writer [Hardcover]

Lewis P. Simpson (Author)

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With a breadth and depth unsurpassed by any other cultural historian of the South, Simpson (English emeritus, Louisiana State Univ.) examines the writing of Southerners Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Arthur Crew Inman, William Styron, and Walker Percy. Simpson offers challenging essays of easy erudition blessedly free of academic jargon. Written within the last decade, these 11 essays--including a culminating personal essay--do not propose to support an overall thesis but simply explore the Southern writer's unique relationship with his or her region, bereft of myth and tradition, in the grasp of science and history. Recommended for all academic American literature collections and large public libraries in the South.
- Charles C. Nash, Cottey Coll., Nevada, Mo.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Hardcover: 249 pages
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr (March 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807118710
ISBN-13: 978-0807118719
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,419,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Around 1850, Roland Barthes says in Writing Degree Zero, classical literature simply "disintegrated," having yielded to the pressure of a cultural situation in which literary order, like social order, had ceased to be hierarchical and had become democratic and pluralistic. Read the first page

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autobiographical motive, modern slave society, loneliness artist, situation interior, southern writer, last casualty, literary vocation, autobiographical impulse

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New York, New England, Allen Tate, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Baton Rouge, Jack Burden, Miss Rosa, All the King's Men, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, William Faulkner, Jefferson Davis, Aunt Martha, World War, Quentin Compson, American Republic, American Revolution, Donald Davidson, American South, Arthur Inman, Southern Review, Walker Percy, Henry James, United States, Ancestors of Exile

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This book cites 100 books:

The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner on 9 pages
The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix (Modern Library of the World's Best Books) by William Faulkner on 9 pages
My Heart and My Flesh by Elizabeth Madox Roberts on 7 pages
The American Scene (United States Local History Ser, No Bcl1) by James Henry on 5 pages
The American Scene (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 5 pages

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14 books cite this book:

Understanding Robert Penn Warren by James A. Grimshaw Jr. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture by Anthony Wilson on page 118, and Back Matter
Faulkner's Questioning Narratives: Fiction of His Major Phase, 1929-42 by David Minter on page 12, and Back Matter
Inventing Southern Literature by Michael Kreyling on page 74, and page 75
The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren (Southern Literary Studies) by David Madden in Back Matter

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