Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952John Earl Bassett Defining Southern Literature delineates several phases in the story of Southern literature. Debate over what makes Southern literature different - or even Southern - goes back many decades, and among the answers has been the debate itself, a uniquely pervasive regional self-consciousness over what makes Southern culture different. Certainly no other American region has been so distinctly "marked" as the South has. Attempts to delineate the special mission, nature, problems, and virtues of Southern writers can be traced back at least to the 1830s, when editors called - with only slight success - for a sectional literature and more supportive Southern readers. |
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... deals with the aristocratic Virginians in that melan- choly moment after the war when the ruin which they had dared ... deal with that side of the local life which lends itself most willingly to expression in modulated prose . He seeks ...
... deals with the aristocratic Virginians in that melan- choly moment after the war when the ruin which they had dared ... deal with that side of the local life which lends itself most willingly to expression in modulated prose . He seeks ...
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... deal with the best material — the actual , every - day life of their region on the same terms that literary art deals with such life in the North , in Russia , in Norway , in Spain . But in fact some of those I have already named have ...
... deal with the best material — the actual , every - day life of their region on the same terms that literary art deals with such life in the North , in Russia , in Norway , in Spain . But in fact some of those I have already named have ...
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... deal with him in recognizably human terms instead of those of the old convention - still retained consid- erable vestiges of sentimentality . Both were prone to see only the poetical or ingratiating aspects of the Negro's lot . On the ...
... deal with him in recognizably human terms instead of those of the old convention - still retained consid- erable vestiges of sentimentality . Both were prone to see only the poetical or ingratiating aspects of the Negro's lot . On the ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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