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The Language of the American South (Paperback)
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The Language of the American South (Paperback)
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In this volume Cleanth Brooks pays tribute to the language and
literature of the American South. He writes of the language's
unique syntax and its celebrated languorous rhythms; of the
classical allusions and Addisonian locutions once favored by the
gentry; and of the more earthbound eloquence, rooted in the dialect
of England's southern lowlands, that is still heard in the speech
of the region's plain folk. It is this rich spoken language, Brooks
suggests, that has always been the life blood of southern writing.
The strong tradition of storytelling in the South is reflected in
the tales told by Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus and in the
obsessive retellings that structure William Faulkner's novels and
stories. But even more crucially, the language of the
South????????????????????????????????????????????????firmly rooted
in the land but with a tendency to reach for the heavens
above????????????????????????????????????????????????has shaped the
literary concerns and molded the complex visions to be found in the
poetry of Robert Penn Warren and John Crowe Ransom; the stories of
Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, and Eudora Welty; and the novels
of Warren, Allen Tate, and Walker Percy.
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