In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the seeming compulsion of southern writers to discuss their region - some defending it, others damning it. He focuses on fourteen practitioners of the southern genre of regional confession who wrote between 1850 and 1970, showing how they - in many cases linking their own destinies with the fate of the South - produced deeply felt, impassioned books that sought to explain the region to outsiders as well as to fellow southerners, and perhaps most of all to themselves.
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In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the seeming compulsion of southern writers to discuss their region - some defending it, others damning it.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780807111314
Publisert
1983-10-30
Utgiver
Louisiana State University Press; Louisiana State University Press
Vekt
333 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
408

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Om bidragsyterne

Fred Hobson is Lineberger Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author, most recently, of Mencken: A Life.