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Twentieth-Century Southern Literature.
Title:
Twentieth-Century Southern Literature.
Author:
Bryant, J. A. Jr.
ISBN:
9780813149240
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Series:
New Perspectives on the South
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: The Making ofa Southern Literature -- 1 The Development of Modern Southern Fiction -- 2 Poetry and Politics at Vanderbilt, 1920-40 -- 3 The New Emphasis on Craftsmanship -- 4 Two Major Novelists -- 5 Southern Playwrights -- Part Two: A Renaissance in Full Swing -- 6 The Beginning of Recognition -- 7 Southern Regionalism Comes of Age -- 8 Women Extend Fiction's Range -- 9 The New Black Writers -- Part Three: Postwar Development and Diversification -- 10 The South After World War II -- 11 Postwar Poetry -- 12 Mainstream Fiction -- 13 The New Major Writers -- 14 Three Key Figures -- 15 Robert Penn Warren -- Bibliographical Note -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Authors discussed include: Wendell Berry, Erskine Caldwell, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Shelby Foote, Zora Neal Hurston, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, William Styron, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright, and many more. By World War II, the Southern Renaissance had established itself as one of the most significant literary events of the century, and today much of the best American fiction is southern fiction. Though the flowering of realistic and local-color writing during the first two decades of the century was a sign of things to come, the period between the two world wars was the crucial one for the South's literary development: a literary revival in Richmond came to fruition; at Vanderbilt University a group of young men produced The Fugitive, a remarkable, controversial magazine that published some of the century's best verse in its brief run; and the publication and widespread recognition of Faulkner (among others) inaugurated the great flood of southern writing that was to follow in novels, short stories, poetry, and plays. With more than forty years of experience writing and reading about the subject, and friendships with many of the figures discussed, J. A. Bryant is uniquely qualified to provide the first comprehensive account of southern American literature since 1900. Bryant pays attention to both the cultural and the historical context of the works and authors discussed, and presents the information in an enjoyable, accessible style. No lover of great American literature can afford to be without this book.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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