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John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate
At Odds about the Ends of History and the Mystery of Nature
Häftad, 2003
560 kr
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The Fugitives were an influential literary group that began at Vanderbilt University in the 1920s. Although the philosophically driven alliance was short-lived, two of its members, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate, went on to become influential Southern poets and theorists.In this work, a …
Eudora Welty and Walker Percy
The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature
Häftad, 2003
560 kr
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Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the concept of home and the importance of home to the homo viator ("man on his way"), and …
On Matters Southern
Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000
Häftad, 2005
560 kr
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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 …
T. S. Eliot
An Essay on the American Magus
Häftad, 2008
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This brilliantly allusive and gracefully written study is focused on T. S. Eliot's developing commitment to Christianity, but the essay is by no means procrustean or reductive in its strategies, nor is it theological.Montgomery shows how Eliot's intellectual and emotional uneasiness in the early …
Possum and Other Receipts for the Recovery of "Southern" Being
Häftad, 2008
476 kr
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In this volume, Marion Montgomery ponders two very different varieties of possum as the starting point for a literary, philosophical, and poetic inquiry into the nature of Southernness. The first possum is the familiar marsupial, native to the American South, in whose modest status can be seen an …
Reflective Journey Toward Order
Essays on Dante, Wordsworth, Eliot, and Others
Häftad, 2008
607 kr
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This book embodies a sequence of closely related essays which explore the modern poet's uneasy awareness of a tradition-the romantic tradition-with which he must contend. The author's premise is that the romantic age extends from The Divine Comedy through Wordsworth to Eliot. The roots of …
Romantic Confusions of the Good
Beauty as Truth, Truth Beauty
Häftad, 1997
825 kr
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With special attention to the Romantic poets from Wordsworth and Coleridge down to Pound and Eliot, distinguished scholar Marion Montgomery explores the disorientation of image and metaphor from reality. The book focuses on the virtues and limits of the intuitive intellect as they are explicated by …
Concerning Intellectual Philandering
Poets and Philosophers, Priests and Politicians
Inbunden, 1998
1642 kr
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In this companion volume to Romantic Confusions of the Good (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), distinguished scholar Marion Montgomery continues his exploration of Romantic poetry, including that of Eliot, Pound, Keats, Donne, Wordsworth, and Williams, from a Thomistic perspective. Of particular …
When Life Happens: Dare Stretch Prosper Becoming Your Best You...Despite Life's Difficulties
Häftad, 2017
246 kr
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Hillbilly Thomist
Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas and the Limits of Art
Häftad, 2006
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In the spirit of St. Thomas Aquinas, the writings of Flannery O'Connor's concern for place can best be seen in the immediacies of things and persons. It is in relation to St. Thomas' teaching, then, that O'Connor becomes comfortable in her "place," Andalusia, that small farm just outside the small …
Romancing Reality – Homa Viator & Scandal Called Beauty
Inbunden, 2002
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The concern in this essay is for our age as one suffering an intellectual severance between our response to existential reality in which the beauty of a created particular thing is divorced from the Cause of that thing's existence. The separation speaks of a deracination of homo viator - the person …
With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party – in Company with Flannery O`Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others
Inbunden, 2009
450 kr
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Montgomery makes a retrospective journey with Walker Percy, as Percy comes to an accommodation with the modern world in company with other companionable journeymen. Percy himself enjoyed a large company of pilgrims who prove amenable to his vision of the human condition - in Percy's words, man is …
Making The Proper Habit Of Our Being
Inbunden, 2000
326 kr
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A positive engagement of the complementary dimensions of intellect that St. Thomas calls the intellectus (intuitive) and the ratio (rational), Making enlarges the concept of making as that capacity to our nature as persons whereby we exercise stewardship in the world, whether in the making of a …
