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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Page 260
... living men of the South who have proper ideals are from the old planter class . Among the descendants of the old ... Living in a region in which society is organized in a simple and natural manner they have not received the educational ...
... living men of the South who have proper ideals are from the old planter class . Among the descendants of the old ... Living in a region in which society is organized in a simple and natural manner they have not received the educational ...
Page 407
... living again in accordance with the unpretentious tradition of her region . To allegorize Dena's story is no doubt to over - simplify , even to distort it ; yet the village telephone operator or the village dudes , who in their own ...
... living again in accordance with the unpretentious tradition of her region . To allegorize Dena's story is no doubt to over - simplify , even to distort it ; yet the village telephone operator or the village dudes , who in their own ...
Page 436
... living predeterminedly , monastically , away from the concrete work , remaining therefore almost without ifluence , seeming content to issue caveats and Everlasting No's and to ambush those who are affirming the living literature and ...
... living predeterminedly , monastically , away from the concrete work , remaining therefore almost without ifluence , seeming content to issue caveats and Everlasting No's and to ambush those who are affirming the living literature and ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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