The Fable of the Southern WriterLSU Press, 1994 - 272 pages "With a breadth and depth unsurpassed by any other cultural historian of the South, Lewis Simpson 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.... [They] 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." -- Library Journal |
Table des matières
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The Fable of the Agrarians and the Failure of the American Republic | 13 |
A Fable of White and Black Jefferson Madison Tate | 24 |
History and the Will of the Artist Elizabeth Madox Roberts | 54 |
War and Memory Quentin Compsons Civil War | 73 |
The Tenses of History Faulkner | 96 |
The Poetry of Criticism Allen Tate | 114 |
The Loneliness Artist Robert Penn Warren | 132 |
The Last Casualty of the Civil War Arthur Crew Inman | 155 |
From Thoreau to Walker Percy Home by Way of California or The End of the Southern Renascence | 183 |
A Personal Fable Living with Indians | 208 |
Acknowledgments | 239 |
| 241 | |
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Absalom Adams Agrarian Allen Tate antebellum Aunt Martha autobiography aware Baton Rouge become brother century character Civil Confederacy Confederate consciousness culture dark Diary Diony Donald Davidson drama dream Elizabeth Madox Roberts Ellen England essay exile experience Fable of White fact father fiction George Posey Henry identity imagination Inman ironic Jack Burden Jack County Jacksboro Jeffers Jefferson Davis John Randolph King's Men Lancelot Last Casualty letters literature live Loneliness Artist Louisiana Luce Mark Twain memory mind Miss Rosa Mississippi mother motive myth nation never novel novelist once Personal Fable poem poet Poetry of Criticism political Quentin Compson Robert Penn Warren Satanta self-conscious sense slave society slavery southern literary Southern Writer story struggle Sutpen symbol Tate says Tate's Tenses of History tension Texas Thoreau to Walker tion transcendent Virginia vision Walker Percy West White and Black William Faulkner Yoknapatawpha York young