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100	1		_aSimpson, Lewis P. _944144
245	1	4	_aThe fable of the southern writer / _cLewis P. Simpson.
260			_aBaton Rouge : _bLouisiana State University Press, _c©1994.
300			_axviii, 249 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe fable of the Agrarians and the failure of the American republic -- A fable of white and black : Jefferson, Madison, Tate -- History and the will of the artist : Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- War and memory : Quentin Compson's Civil War -- The tenses of history : Faulkner -- The poetry of criticism : Allen Tate -- The loneliness artist : Robert Penn Warren -- The last casualty of the Civil War : Arthur Crew Inman -- From Thoreau to Walker Percy : home by way of California ; or, the end of the Southern Renascence.
520			_aIn books such as The Dispossessed Garden and The Brazen Face of History, Lewis P. Simpson has outlined - and in large part defined - the southern literary imagination. The Fable of the Southern Writer expands upon his previous work as it contemplates the drama of the literary self in quest of its historical identity.
520	8		_aWritten over the past decade, the eleven essays in this collection have as their centering theme a search for the autobiographical motive in southern fiction and criticism. Simpson directs his focus in these essays, which are more meditative than argumentative, from a variety of angles, to suggest that the impulse and vision of the southern writer derive from the same tension that has gripped modern writers in general: the effort to grasp and interpret the relationship between the self and history.
520	8		_aSimpson ponders the role of the self as literary artist attempting to confront and order a desacralized world, a world in which everything and everybody, every aspect of nature and human consciousness, has with the advent of science taken on purely historical dimensions.
520	8		_aConsidering a broad spectrum of writers - including Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Arthur Crew Inman, William Styron, and Walker Percy - ten of the essays address the larger question of what it means to be a writer of the American South in the modern world - the world of science and history that has forever replaced the world of myth and tradition.
520	8		_aNot expecting or even seeking to resolve this question, Simpson nonetheless considers its centrality to, for example, Faulkner's imaginative involvement in the history of his own environs, suggesting his work may be read as the complex autobiographical fable of the modern literary artist in the South.
520	8		_aIntegral to Faulkner's, Warren's, and many other southern writers' definition of self, Simpson explains, is the image of a lost homeland. In later twentieth-century writers of the South, however, this image, with the accompanying tension between the love of home and the necessity of exile, has gradually yielded to the universal modern phenomenon of memory's alienation by history. The memoiristic essay that concludes the volume offers an implied comment on this phenomenon.
520	8		_aThe Fable of the Southern Writer is a distinguished accomplishment in critical thinking. These essays cover significant ground in Lewis P. Simpson's continuing quest to define the image of the writer as self-conscious southerner.
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast
650		0	_aAmerican literature _zSouthern States _xHistory and criticism. _93135
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. _99049
650		0	_aAuthorship _xSocial aspects _zSouthern States. _944145
650		7	_aAmerican literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00807113
650		7	_aAuthorship _xSocial aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00822471 _944146
650		7	_aIntellectual life. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00975769
650		7	_aLiterature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00999953
650		7	_aAmerikaans. _2gtt
650		7	_aLetterkunde. _2gtt
650		7	_aIdentität _2gnd _932788
650		7	_aLiteratur _2gnd
650		7	_aSchriftsteller _2gnd _926327
651		0	_aSouthern States _xIntellectual life. _944147
651		0	_aSouthern States _xIn literature.
651		7	_aSouthern States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01244550
651		7	_aUSA _xSüdstaaten _2gnd
651		4	_aSouthern States _xIntellectual life. _944147
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780807118719.pdf _zTable of contents
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