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American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Authorship--Social aspects--Southern States, Southern States--Intellectual life, Southern States--In literature.
publication date
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1994
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PS261.S468 1994eb
ddc
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810.9/975
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American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Authorship--Social aspects--Southern States, Southern States--Intellectual life, Southern States--In literature.
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Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award for 1993
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The Fable of the Southern Writer
Lewis P. Simpson
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Copyright 1994 by Louisiana State University Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Typeface: Bembo
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Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Simpson, Lewis P. The fable of the Southern writer / Lewis P. Simpson. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8071-1871-0 (alk. paper) 1. American literatureSouthern StatesHistory and criticism. 2. American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. AuthorshipSocial aspectsSouthern States. 4. Southern States Intellectual life. 5. Southern States in literature. I. Title. PS261.S468 1993 810.9'975dc20 93-8699 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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For Mimi
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For now hath time made me his numbering clock; My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar. King Richard II in Shakespeare, Richard II, Act V, Scene 5
Faith is not a form of knowledge, for all knowledge is either knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and the historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical. Kierkegaard
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Contents
Preface
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Prologue: John Randolph and the Inwardness of History
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I The Fable of the Agrarians and the Failure of the American Republic
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II A Fable of White and Black: Jefferson, Madison, Tate
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III History and the Will of the Artist: Elizabeth Madox Roberts
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IV War and Memory: Quentin Compson's Civil War
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V The Tenses of History: Faulkner
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VI The Poetry of Criticism: Allen Tate
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VII The Loneliness Artist: Robert Penn Warren
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VIII The Last Casualty of the Civil War: Arthur Crew Inman
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IX From Thoreau to Walker Percy: Home by Way of California; or, The End of the Southern Renascence
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Epilogue: A Personal Fable: Living with Indians
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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Preface
For a number of years, something like forty to be more precise, I have attempted to be a historian of American letters. It may be that in moments when the going has been good, I have succeeded in being, more broadly, what it is nowadays so fashionable to be, a cultural historian. If I have learned anything at all in my prolonged inquiry into the significance of our country's literature, I think it may be summed up only in a nonspecific principle governing historical inquiry in general: Although the search for meaning illuminates the historical context of the seeking, it can in no wise transcend it, being in itself an inextricable part of whatever meaning may be disclosed.
This pretentious Nietzschean platitude occurs to me as I find myself adding a volume to several others that in one way or another explore aspects of the literary vocation in America. Two of these,
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