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The narrative forms of Southern community / Scott Romine.

By: Series: Southern literary studiesPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©1999.Description: 226 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 080712401X
  • 9780807124017
  • 080712527X
  • 9780807125274
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.009/975 21
LOC classification:
  • PS261 .R53 1999
Other classification:
  • 18.06
Contents:
Negotiating community : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia scenes -- Plantation community : John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow barn and Thomas Nelson Page's In ole Virginia -- Aesthetics of community : William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the levee -- Narrating the community narrating : William Faulkner's Light in August -- Whence the community? : some thoughts on contemporary Southern fiction.
Review: "In this succinct study, Scott Romine considers a key paradox that has been associated with the concept of "community" from the beginning of modern southern literary criticism: namely, that communities often valued for their cohesiveness and moral stability were at the same time sites of oppression along race and class lines. How were communities so deeply divided able to maintain even the appearance of organic cohesiveness? The Narrative Forms of Southern Community contains close readings of five narratives - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes, John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn, Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia, William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the Levee, and William Faulkner's Light in August - that attempt to mediate or negotiate the social tensions inherent in the stratified world they represent."--Jacket.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PS 261 .R53 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 27614

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222) and index.

Negotiating community : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia scenes -- Plantation community : John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow barn and Thomas Nelson Page's In ole Virginia -- Aesthetics of community : William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the levee -- Narrating the community narrating : William Faulkner's Light in August -- Whence the community? : some thoughts on contemporary Southern fiction.

"In this succinct study, Scott Romine considers a key paradox that has been associated with the concept of "community" from the beginning of modern southern literary criticism: namely, that communities often valued for their cohesiveness and moral stability were at the same time sites of oppression along race and class lines. How were communities so deeply divided able to maintain even the appearance of organic cohesiveness? The Narrative Forms of Southern Community contains close readings of five narratives - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes, John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn, Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia, William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the Levee, and William Faulkner's Light in August - that attempt to mediate or negotiate the social tensions inherent in the stratified world they represent."--Jacket.

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