The oral character of American southern literature : explaining the distinctiveness of regional texts / Clay Morton ; with a preface by Hubert H. McAlexander.

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Morton, Clay

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9780773421141
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PS261 .M675 2008eb

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The oral character of southern culture -- Toward a poetics of southern orality -- Orality and southern narrative : pattern and structure -- Southern epistemology and the psychodynamics of orality.

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-192) and index.

The oral character of southern culture -- Toward a poetics of southern orality -- Orality and southern narrative : pattern and structure -- Southern epistemology and the psychodynamics of orality.

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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.

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