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The Southern review and modern literature, 1935-1985

1987

Format:	Book
Title:	The Southern review and modern literature, 1935-1985 / edited by Lewis P. Simpson, James Olney, and Jo Gulledge.
Publisher, Date:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1987] ©1987
Description:	xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. illustration
Series:	Southern literary studies Southern literary studies.
Subjects:	American literature -- Louisiana -- Baton Rouge -- History and criticism -- Congresses. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses. American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism -- Congresses. Literature publishing -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Other Author:	Simpson, Lewis P. Olney, James. Gulledge, Jo. Conference on Southern Letters and Modern Literature (1985 : Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge)
Other Title:	Southern review (Baton Rouge, La.)
Notes:	Contains most of the papers presented at the Conference on Southern Letters and Modern Literature, held at Louisiana State University in 1985, along with a few pieces from the Southern review. Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-238). 453637 ; *453638
LCCN:	87021384
ISBN:	0807114243
Other Number:	16404156
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At first, with its recollections of Louisiana State University, Huey Long, and the beginnings of The Southern Review, this volume would appear to be repetitious of much that Thomas W. Cutrer covered in Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942 (CH, Jan '85). But by page 42 and the proceedings of the 1935 Conference on Literature and Reading in the South and Southwest, new interest is generated. No matter who is writing about the South, there continues to be a mystery concerning what is southern. The southern poet, states James W. Applewhite, is trapped by an "emotion almost too intense for statement." The southern writer in exile, observes Walter Sullivan, constantly has to rekindle a sense of piety. The most illuminating section of the book, "The Afro-American Writer and the South," portrays southern blacks as figures of absence in literature, next as subjects and objects, and, finally, as writers of a black South. The book's concluding essays are on T.S. Eliot, one of which, by Cleanth Brooks, contends that Eliot's Notes Towards a Definition of Culture (1944) closely resembles the Agrarians' I'll Take My Stand (1930). Recommended for libraries on any level with a southern literature collection. -S. W. Whyte, Montgomery County Community College

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