2003 PB The Fable of the Southern Writer (Jules and Frances Landry Award)

Simpson, Lewis P.

ISBN 10: 0807129151 / ISBN 13: 9780807129159

Published by LSU Press, 2003

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Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is verygood. Binding is tight/good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 2003 PB The Fable of the Southern Writer (Jules and Frances Landry Award)
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807129151
• ISBN 13: 9780807129159
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 16 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

"With a breadth and depth unsurpassed by any other cultural historian of the South, Lewis Simpson examines the writing of southerners Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Arthur Crew Inman, William Styron, and Walker Percy. Simpson offers challenging essays of easy erudition blessedly free of academic jargon.... [They] do not propose to support an overall thesis, but simply explore the southern writer's unique relationship with his or her region, bereft of myth and tradition, in the grasp of science and history." -- Library Journal

About the Author

ewis P. Simpson, former coeditor of the Southern Review,is Boyd Professor and William A. Read Professor of English, emeritus, at Louisiana State University. A founding member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and past president of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, he is the author or editor of more than thirteen books, including Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes, winner of the Avery O. Craven Award.