The Roots of Southern Writing: Essays on the Literature of the American South

by C. Hugh Holman

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At the heart of the southern riddle you will find a union of opposites, a condition of instability, a paradox. Calm grace and raw hatred. Polished manners and violence. An intense individualism and intense group pressures toward conformity. A reverence to the point of idolatry of self-determining action and a caste and class structure presupposing an aristocratic hierarchy. A passion for political action and a willingness to surrender to the enslavement...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:082033359X

ISBN13:9780820333595

Release Date:November 2008

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Length:252 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction

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