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Southern Exposure
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BOOK WORLD
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3 / 1986 |
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James J. Thompson
James J. Thompson holds a doctorate in American history from
the University of Virginia and is the author of Tried As By
Fire: Southern Baptists and the Religious Controversies of the
1920s. |
THE LANGUAGE OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Cleanth Brooks
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
58 pp, $9.95 (cloth)
IMAGES OF THE SOUTHERN WRITER
Mark Morrow
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
97 pp., $24.95 (cloth)
THE HISTORY OF SOUTHERN LITERATURE
Mark Morrow
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
626 pp., $29.95 (cloth)
In the course of its illustrious history the South has produced prolifically seven varieties of humankind: statesmen, soldiers, preachers, singers, beautiful women, football players, and writers. The glory days of Southern statesmanship have passed, the droll presidency of an inconspicuous Georgian having torpedoed the notion that Southerners possess an intuitive knack for statecraft. Ebullient prosperity and slackened pugnacity have dampened the Southerner's ardor for the military virtues. The demise of the Virtuoso blues men and women and Nashville's apotheosis of meretriciousness spell the doom of gritty integrity in music. What does that leave the South? Fiddle with the radio dial on a Sunday morning anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line and one discovers immediately that the region still teems with exhorters, Biblethumpers, foot-stomping gospelers and hell-fire-and-damnation
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