Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942
Language: English
Published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1984
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Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge wear, overall shelf wear. Study of the history of the Southern Review during a time when it was one of the finest American literary journals of its day. 9.25" tall; 290 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
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- Title
- Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942
- Author
- Cutrer, Thomas W.
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge
- Publication year
- 1984
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807111430
- ISBN 13
- 9780807111437
- Seller catalogs
- Americana, History, Literature
Thomas Cutrer chronicles how the Southern Review, created in the midst of the Depression by the largess of Louisiana governor Huey P. Long, quickly rose to the position of the finest American literary journal of its day. Under the joint editorship of Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, the journal published criticism, poetry, and short fiction by writers as eminent as R.P. Blackmur, Kenneth Burke, T.S. Elliot, and Wallace Stevens. The editors also encouraged and published works by such young talented, and at the time unknown writers as Nelson Algren, Randall Jarrell, Mary McCarthy, and Eudora Welty.
During these same years, Brooks and Warren collaborated on three textbooks, An Approach to Literature, Understanding Poetry, and Understanding Fiction, which would revolutionise college English by emphasising the study of a literary work itself, in concrete and precise terms, over the study of the biographical, historical, and moral issues surrounding it. Brooks also wrote his influential critical works Modern Poetry and Tradition and The Well Wrought Urn, while Warren wrote two novels and some of his finest poems and stories, and absorbed material from the political tumult around him for the work that would later become All the King's Men.
The stature of the Southern Review and the vitality of the literary community that it spawned were both, to a great extent, born of the dedication and creativity of Books and Warren, but in other very tangible ways, they were also by-products of the ambition of Huey Long; ironically, it was the actions of one of the assassinated governor's loyalists that brought an end to Baton Rouge's time as a Parnassus. After a financial scandal rocked the university, a reform administration was appointed which, in its zeal to curb a runaway budget, stopped the funding for the review. Soon after, Brooks and Warren both left the faculty. The Southern Review itself would lie dormant until its revival two decades later.
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