On Matters Southern

Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

Marion Montgomery, family man, citizen, professor, literary critic, poet, philosopher, is a prolific defender of the poetic, cultural and critical vision of the Fugitive poets, the Southern Agrarian writers, and the New Critics of the 20th century. He has published more than 20 major works of criticism in the past 40 years.This volume presents 16 of his essays, selected and edited by Michael M. Jordan with a foreword by noted historian Eugene D. Genovese. It is a good introduction to the thinking and writing of a man who speaks for southern conservatism with passion and imagination, with head and heart, exercising both faith and reason.This work is divided into five sections--"The Author at Work and at Home," "On Place and Region," "On Fugitives, Agrarians, and New Critics," "On Individual Authors" and "On Books and Schooling." In the essays Montgomery discusses the importance of place in all serious literature, but especially in southern letters. He notes differences between southern and northern fiction. He pays tribute to Andrew Lytle, Madison Jones, and M.E. Bradford, and explicates the fiction of Walker Percy. Taken together, the essays reveal Montgomery's gifts and temperament: a keen intellect combined with a reverential awareness of the importance of tradition.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-09-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:295 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:214
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786422241

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Mer om författaren

The late Marion Montgomery was professor emeritus of English at the University of Georgia. In 2003, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute honored Montgomery with the Gerhart Niemeyer Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship in Liberal Arts. He lived in Crawford, Georgia. Editor Michael M. Jordan is associate professor of English and department chairman at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where he has been teaching literature and composition for the last 15 years. He has written for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Modern Age, The University Bookman, The Southern Partisan and other journals of scholarship and opinion.

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“engaging...readers...will be rewarded in reading [Montgomery]”—Modern Age; “timely”—Weekly Standard; “I regard Marion Montgomery as one of the most acute and profound criticis of present-day American culture. He brings to his discussion of it penetrating insight and solid scholarship.”—Cleanth Brooks.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Eugene D. Genovese Preface by Michael M. Jordan PART I: THE AUTHOR AT WORK AND AT HOME1. The Country, Here 2. Of Mulls and Memories PART II: ON PLACE AND REGION3. Georgia as a Place for Writers 4. Is Regional Writing Dead? 5. Ceremony and the Regional Spirit 6. The Sense of Violation: Notes Toward a Definition of "Southern" Fiction 7. Southern Letters in the Twentieth Century: The Articulation of a Tradition PART III: ON FUGITIVES, AGRARIANS, AND NEW CRITICS8. Bells for John Stewart's Burden 9. The Agrarians: Here and Now 10. Misunderstanding Criticism PART IV: ON INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS11. For Andrew, in Celebration 12. How to Get Here From There: A Tribute to Madison Jones on Our Passage through Gehenna 13. Remembering Who M.E. Bradford Is 14. Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal PART V: ON BOOKS AND SCHOOLING15. Books, Books, Books: Difficult Choices in Time of Intellectual Stress 16. To My Son, Going Away to School Books by Marion Montgomery Index

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