The Dream of Arcady : Place and Time in Southern Literature
"This is a well-organized, gracefully written account of a significant aspect of Southern fiction, and it contains information and incisive commentary that one can find nowhere else."--Thomas Daniel YoungMany southern writers imagined the South as a qualified dream of Arcady. They retained...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
LSU Press,
1999.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "This is a well-organized, gracefully written account of a significant aspect of Southern fiction, and it contains information and incisive commentary that one can find nowhere else."--Thomas Daniel YoungMany southern writers imagined the South as a qualified dream of Arcady. They retained the glow of the golden land as a device to expose or rebuke, to confront or escape the complexities of the actual times in which they lived. The Dream of Arcady examines the work of post-Civil War southern writers who criticize the myth of the South as pastoral paradise. Sooner or later in all their idealized. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (278 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780807153550 |