The oral character of American southern literature : explaining the distinctiveness of regional texts

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Label

The oral character of American southern literature : explaining the distinctiveness of regional texts

Title remainder

explaining the distinctiveness of regional texts

Statement of responsibility

Clay Morton ; with a preface by Hubert H. McAlexander

Creator

• Morton, Clay

Subject

• American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
• Civilization
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Intellectual life
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
• Literature
• Oral tradition in literature
• American literature
• Regionalism in literature
• Regionalism in literature
• Southern States
• Southern States -- Civilization
• Southern States -- In literature
• Southern States -- Intellectual life
• Oral tradition in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

The literary distinctiveness of the American South has been the subject of much scholarly discussion. Although oratory and folklore are often cited as influences on the unique character of Southern literature, no scholar in the field has yet explored orality as a possibly deterministic factor in the shaping of the region's literary and cultural identity. This study makes use of the extensive research available on the differences in kind between oral and literate thought and expression in order to argue that practically every distinguishing feature of Southern literature may be traced to the re

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

OCLCE

Dewey number

810.9/975

Index

index present

LC call number

PS261

LC item number

.M675 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography