A backward glance
Subtitle: the Southern renascence, the autobiographical epic, and the classical legacy
By: Joseph Millichap.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781572336599
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The autobiographical epic; title: The classical legacy; title: Allen Tate : classical matters, seasons of the soul, and recovered memories; title: Caroline Gordon : auto/biography, Aleck Maury, and the heroic cycle; title: William Faulkner : genealogy and stewardship, ekphrasis and appellation in Go down, Moses; title: Thomas Wolfe : Odyssey and Anabasis in O lost; title: Robert Penn Warren : father figures and dead languages, age-work and life-review; title: Eudora Welty : fiction, memoir, and classical myth; title: Ralph Ellison : autobiography and epic, before and after Invisible man; title: Epilogue : the post-southern renaissance.