Description
It is this rich spoken language, Brooks suggests, that has always been the life blood of southern writing. The strong tradition of storytelling in the South is reflected in the tales told by Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus and in the obsessive retellings that structure William Faulkner's novels and stories. But even more crucially, the language of the South-firmly rooted in the land but with a tendency to reach for the heavens above-has shaped the literary concerns and molded the complex visions to be found in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren and John Crowe Ransom; the stories of Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, and Eudora Welty; and the novels of Warren, Allen Tate, and Walker Percy.
About the Author
CLEANTH BROOKS (1906-1994) was Gray Professor of Rhetoric Emeritus at Yale University. Over his distinguished career, he published innumerable books and articles of great influence on the study of American literature, and in particular southern literature; among them are The Well-Wrought Urn and three volumes of a monumental study of William Faulkner.
Book Information
ISBN 9780820331232
Author Cleanth Brooks
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint University of Georgia Press
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Weight(grams) 107g