Literary New Orleans in the Modern World - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0807131598 ISBN 13: 9780807131596

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

Cleanth Brooks may have summarized it best: "New Orleans has become one of the cities of the mind, and is therefore immortal." Its writers make it so. Like Richard S. Kennedy's earlier collection Literary New Orleans,> these nine essays explore the belletristic Crescent City -- its history, authors, myths, and realities. This volume focuses on twentieth-century New Orleans, beginning with modernism's brief blooming in the 1920s, followed by the fading of New Orleans's peculiarly dreamy romanticism and the flourishing of a distinctive realism, and concluding with a recurrence and transformation of the earlier romantic strain in contemporary Gothic and mystery fiction. Literary New Orleans in the Modern World provides chapters in the history of a unique American city, written in the very spirit of New Orleans as it has cast its spell on writers.

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L'autore:

Richard S. Kennedy (1920--2002) was the author of Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E. E. Cummings and The Window of Memory: A Literary Biography of Thomas Wolfe. He also edited the collection Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations. He was a professor emeritus of English at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Product Description:

This volume focuses on 20th-century New Orleans, from modernism's brief blooming in the 1920s to a recurrence and transformation of earlier romantic strains in contemporary Gothic and mystery fiction. LITERARY NEW ORLEANS IN THE MODERN WORLD is written in the spirit of New Orleans itself as it has cast its spell on its authors. 37 photos.

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• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0807131598
• ISBN 13: 9780807131596
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 169
• Redattore: Kennedy Richard S.