Uproariously funny and filled with choice narration, The Big Ballad Jamboree is Donald Davidson's only novel.
He set his story- the romance of hillbilly and country singer Danny MacGregor with folk singer and ballad scholar Cissy Timberlake- in the fictional western North Carolina town of Carolina City during the summer of 1949. The late forties, just after WWII and before the rise of national television, are great years for classic country music on live radio. Yet this Appalachian community is struggling to embrace a modern commercial economy without losing its folk heritage.
In...
Uproariously funny and filled with choice narration, The Big Ballad Jamboree is Donald Davidson's only novel.
This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, Truth and Predication brings full circle a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the problems of contemporary philosophy. In particular, Davidson, countering many of his contemporaries, argues that the concept of truth is not ambiguous, and that we need an effective theory of truth in order to live well.
Davidson begins by harking back to an early interest in the classics, and an even earlier engagement with the...
This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, ...
One of the most important of the Southern magazines in the 1920s was "The Fugitive," a magazine of verse and brief commentaries on literature in general. Among its contributors were John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Donald Davidson, and Merrill Moore. Publication began in April 1922 and ended in December 1925. Soon thereafter, the "Fugitive" writers and some others became profoundly concerned with the materialism of American life and its effect upon the South. The group became known as "Agrarians." Their thinking and discussion culminated in a symposium, "I'll Take My...
One of the most important of the Southern magazines in the 1920s was "The Fugitive," a magazine of verse and brief commentaries on literature in ge...
One of the most important of the Southern magazines in the 1920s was" The Fugitive," a magazine of verse and brief commentaries on literature in general. Among its contributors were John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Donald Davidson, and Merrill Moore. Publication began in April 1922 and ended in December 1925. Soon thereafter, the "Fugitive" writers and some others became profoundly concerned with the materialism of American life and its effect upon the South. The group became known as "Agrarians." Their thinking and discussion culminated in a symposium, "I'll Take My...
One of the most important of the Southern magazines in the 1920s was" The Fugitive," a magazine of verse and brief commentaries on literature in ge...
