Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award
Title
The Fable of the Southern Writer
Files
Description
(from Library Journal)
"With a breadth and depth unsurpassed by any other cultural historian of the South, Lewis Simpson examines the writing of southerners Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Arthur Crew Inman, William Styron, and Walker Percy. Simpson offers challenging essays of easy erudition blessedly free of academic jargon.... [They] do not propose to support an overall thesis, but simply explore the southern writer's unique relationship with his or her region, bereft of myth and tradition, in the grasp of science and history."
ISBN
9780807129159
Publication Date
1995
Publisher
LSU Press
Disciplines
American Literature | Arts and Humanities | Critical and Cultural Studies | Nonfiction | Poetry
Recommended Citation
Simpson, Lewis P., "The Fable of the Southern Writer" (1995). Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award. 11.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/rpw_bkaw/11
Comments
1994-95 Winner