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title	:	The Fable of the Southern Writer
author	:	Simpson, Lewis P.
publisher	:	Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0807118710
print isbn13	:	9780807118719
ebook isbn13	:	9780585300009
language	:	English
subject	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	:	1994
lcc	:	PS261.S468 1994eb
ddc	:	810.9/975
subject	:	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.

Page i Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award for 1993

Page v The Fable of the Southern Writer Lewis P. Simpson

Page vi Copyright 1994 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 5 4 3 2 Designer: Glynnis Phoebe Typeface: Bembo Typesetter: G & S Typesetters, Inc. 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.

Page vii For Mimi

Page ix 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

Page xi Contents Preface xiii Prologue: John Randolph and the Inwardness of History 1 I The Fable of the Agrarians and the Failure of the American Republic 13 II A Fable of White and Black: Jefferson, Madison, Tate 24 III History and the Will of the Artist: Elizabeth Madox Roberts 54 IV War and Memory: Quentin Compson's Civil War 73 V The Tenses of History: Faulkner 96 VI The Poetry of Criticism: Allen Tate 114 VII The Loneliness Artist: Robert Penn Warren 132 VIII The Last Casualty of the Civil War: Arthur Crew Inman 155 IX From Thoreau to Walker Percy: Home by Way of California; or, The End of the Southern Renascence 183 Epilogue: A Personal Fable: Living with Indians 208 Acknowledgments 239 Index 241

Page xiii 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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