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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... past , no historians because they have not the basis of knowledge of the past to enable them to place the history even of their own localities in the proper setting , or , indeed , to acquire the cultured condition of mind which gives a ...
... past , no historians because they have not the basis of knowledge of the past to enable them to place the history even of their own localities in the proper setting , or , indeed , to acquire the cultured condition of mind which gives a ...
Page 358
... past . But it is as useless to run away from the past as it is to run away from what we call life . Wherever we go , we still carry life , and that root of life which is the past , in our tribal memories , in our nerves , in our ...
... past . But it is as useless to run away from the past as it is to run away from what we call life . Wherever we go , we still carry life , and that root of life which is the past , in our tribal memories , in our nerves , in our ...
Page 440
... past , not for the past's sake , but because of a sense of the immanence of past in present , and for the sake of finding or creating tales of mythic value . It is presumably for some success in this endeavor that the South- erners have ...
... past , not for the past's sake , but because of a sense of the immanence of past in present , and for the sake of finding or creating tales of mythic value . It is presumably for some success in this endeavor that the South- erners have ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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