The Fable of the Southern Writer
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780807129159
Subjects: American studies; Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; Central Southern states; American - Southern; American - General
First sentence: Around 1850, Roland Barthes says in Writing Degree Zero, classical literature simply "disintegrated," having yielded to the pressure of a cultural situation in which literary order, like social order, had ceased to be hierarchical and had become democratic and pluralistic.