{"product_id":"the-language-of-the-american-south-mercer-university-lamar-memorial-lectures-9780820307824","title":"The Language of the American South (MERCER UNIVERSITY LAMAR MEMORIAL LECTURES)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Language of the American South (MERCER UNIVERSITY LAMAR MEMORIAL LECTURES)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Brooks, Cleanth. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780820307824.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this volume Cleanth Brooks pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. He writes of the languages unique syntax and its celebrated languorous rhythms; of the classical allusions and Addisonian locutions once favored by the gentry; and of the more earthbound eloquence, rooted in the dialect of Englands southern lowlands, that is still heard in the speech of the regions plain folk.\nIt is this rich spoken language, Brooks suggests, that has always been the life blood of southern writing. The strong tradition of storytelling in the South is reflected in the tales told by Joel Chandler Harriss Uncle Remus and in the obsessive retellings that structure William Faulkners novels and stories. But even more crucially, the language of the South--firmly rooted in the land but with a tendency to reach for the heavens above--has shaped the literary concerns and molded the complex visions to be found in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren and John Crowe Ransom; the stories of Flannery OConnor, Peter Taylor, and Eudora Welty; and the novels of Warren, Allen Tate, and Walker Percy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945068458037,"sku":"ByrdShop_0820307823","price":221.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780820307824_4d55876c-49c0-4f2a-a422-6ed5f33ff351.jpg?v=1792379179","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-language-of-the-american-south-mercer-university-lamar-memorial-lectures-9780820307824","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}