Community, religion, and literature : essays / by Cleanth Brooks.

Author/creator Brooks, Cleanth
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia : University of Missouri Press, ©1995.
Descriptionx, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American literature--Southern States. --History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism. --Theory, etc.
English literature--History and criticism. --Theory, etc.
Religion and literature--English-speaking countries.
Community life in literature.
Religion and literature.
Southern States--Intellectual life.
Southern States--In literature.

Contents In search of the new criticism -- The primacy of the linguistic medium -- The crisis in culture as reflected in Southern literature -- Religion and literature -- Frost and nature -- The new criticism -- The waste land : a prophetic document -- Faulkner's criticism of modern America -- Episode and anecdote in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren -- John Crowe Ransom : as I remember him -- The primacy of the author -- English literature : A subject matter? A discipline? A special amalgam? -- Science, religion, and literature -- T.S. Eliot and the American South -- The past reexaminedd : The optimist's daughter -- The past alive in the present -- The primacy of the reader -- Literature in a technological age -- An age of silver : contemporary American literature -- Nature and human nature in the poetry of Robert Frost -- Walker Percy : in celebration -- The real importance of the humanities.
Local noteLittle-325083--305131044334V
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 94043049
ISBN0826209939

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Joyner General Stacks PS261 .B75 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold