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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Autor principal: MacKethan, Lucinda Hardwick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Pastoral literature, American.
Literature.
Arcadia in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Lieu (Philosophie) dans la litterature.
Litterature pastorale americaine > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire et critique.
Pastoral literature, American > Southern States > History and criticism.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
Southern States > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (278 pages).
ISBN:9780807153550

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