Taken from one of America's oldest and most distinguished literary journals, these essays revaluate eminent British and American literary critics of the twentieth century in one masterful volume.
Taken from one of America's oldest and most distinguished literary journals, these essays revaluate eminent British and American literary critics ...
This collection of essays devoted to the centrality of place in the short stories and novels of some of the twentieth century's most famous American writers was conceived as a way to honor the life and career of Walter Sullivan, an author for whom place was central both in his fiction and in his critical writing. The works explored in this volume range from the Middle West realism of Fitzgerald and Powers to the wilderness vision of Faulkner and the historical and political fiction of Warren. In "Imagination in Place" Wendell Berry describes how place in the context of local...
This collection of essays devoted to the centrality of place in the short stories and novels of some of the twentieth century's most famous Ame...
Warren's first novel, set during the tobacco wars that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren's innocent idealists whose delusions become murderous as he attempts to define himself by action in the unfolding violence around him. Southern Classics Series.
Warren's first novel, set during the tobacco wars that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren'...
Francis Fergusson was one of the foremost American literary critics and scholars of the twentieth century. A man of the theater as well as a man of letters, Fergusson's versatility and mastery traversed a wide range of intellectual disciplines. As George Core notes: "one of the most remarkable aspects of Fergusson's criticism is that it stands comfortably, at ease, with the best work stemming from diverse schools of criticism that are sometimes in conflict--the New Critics, the New York intellectuals, the myth critics and various distinguished critics of the modern theater." Though allied...
Francis Fergusson was one of the foremost American literary critics and scholars of the twentieth century. A man of the theater as well as a man of...