Allen Tate And The Catholic Revival

Author : Peter A. Huff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allen Tate and the Catholic Revival written by Peter A. Huff and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the influence of the preconciliar Catholic Literary Revival on the southern literary critic and Catholic convert Allen Tate (1899-1979), examining Tate's attempt to incorporate the Revival's Christian humanism into a distinctive critique of secular industrial society.

Author : Paul V. Murphy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807875546
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rebuke of History written by Paul V. Murphy and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930, a group of southern intellectuals led by John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren published I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. A stark attack on industrial capitalism and a defiant celebration of southern culture, the book has raised the hackles of critics and provoked passionate defenses from southern loyalists ever since. As Paul Murphy shows, its effects on the evolution of American conservatism have been enduring as well. Tracing the Agrarian tradition from its origins in the 1920s through the present day, Murphy shows how what began as a radical conservative movement eventually became, alternately, a critique of twentieth-century American liberalism, a defense of the Western tradition and Christian humanism, and a form of southern traditionalism--which could include a defense of racial segregation. Although Agrarianism failed as a practical reform movement, its intellectual influence was wide-ranging, Murphy says. This influence expanded as Ransom, Tate, and Warren gained reputations as leaders of the New Criticism. More notably, such "neo-Agrarians" as Richard M. Weaver and M. E. Bradford transformed Agrarianism into a form of social and moral traditionalism that has had a significant impact on the emerging conservative movement since World War II.

Author : John V. Glass III
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813228638
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allen Tate written by John V. Glass III and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of Mississippi, 2009).

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195156536
Total Pages : 2273 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature written by Jay Parini and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 2273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set treats the whole of American literature, from the European discovery of America to the present, with entries in alphabetical order. Each of the 350 substantive essays is a major interpretive contribution. Well-known critics and scholars provide clear and vividly written essays thatreflect the latest scholarship on a given topic, as well as original thinking on the part of the critic. The Encyclopedia is available in print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.At the core of the encyclopedia lie 250 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists. The most prominent figures (such as Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, Frost, Morrison, and so forth) are treated at considerable length (10,000 words) by top-flight critics. Less well known figures arediscussed in essays ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words. Each essay examines the life of the author in the context of his or her times, looking in detail at key works and describing the arc of the writer's career. These essays include an assessment of the writer's current reputation with abibliography of major works by the writer as well as a list of major critical and biographical works about the writer under discussion.A second key element of the project is the critical assessments of major American masterworks, such as Moby-Dick, Song of Myself, Walden, The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Death of a Salesmanr, or Beloved. Each of these essays offers a close reading of the given work,placing that work in its historical context and offering a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach. These fifty essays (ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words) are simply and clearly enough written that an intelligent high school student should easily understand them, but sophisticatedenough that a college student or general reader in a public library will find the essays both informative and stimulating.The final major element of this encyclopedia consists of fifty-odd essays on literary movements, periods, or themes, pulling together a broad range of information and making interesting connections. These essays treat many of the same authors already discussed, but in a different context; they alsogather into the fold authors who do not have an entire essay on their work (so that Zane Grey, for example, is discussed in an essay on Western literature but does not have an essay to himself). In this way, the project is truly "encyclopedic," in the conventional sense. These essays aim forcomprehensiveness without losing anything of the narrative force that makes them good reading in their own right.In a very real fashion, the literature of the American people reflects their deepest desires, aspirations, fears, and fantasies. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature gathers a wide range of information that illumines the field itself and clarifies many of its particulars.

Author : Thomas Fredrick Haddox
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823225217
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fears and Fascinations written by Thomas Fredrick Haddox and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the works of diverse writers as the gens de couleur libre poets of antebellum New Orleans, this book focuses on the shifting and contradictory ways Catholicism has signified within southern literature and culture. It contributes to a more nuanced understanding of American and southern literary and cultural history.

Author : Angie Maxwell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469611643
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indicted South written by Angie Maxwell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness

Author : Patrick Allitt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801486630
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholic Converts written by Patrick Allitt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: intellectuals becoming Catholics -- New pride and old prejudice -- Loss and gain: the first English converts -- Tractarains and transcendentalists in America -- Infallibility and its discontents -- America, modernism, and hell -- The lowliness of his handmaidens: women and conversion -- The British apologists' spiritual Aeneid -- Revival and departure -- Fascists, communists, Catholics, and total war -- Transforming the past: the convert historians -- Novels from Hadrian to Brideshead -- The preconciliar generation: 1935-1962.

Author : Margaret M. McGuinness
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823282759
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Catholicism in the United States written by Margaret M. McGuinness and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays providing an extensive history of Catholicism in America from numerous perspectives. Roman Catholicism in the United States: A Thematic History takes the reader beyond the traditional ways scholars have viewed and recounted the story of the Catholic Church in America. The collection covers unfamiliar topics such as anti-Catholicism, rural Catholicism, Latino Catholics, and issues related to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the US government. The book continues with fascinating discussions on popular culture (film and literature), women religious, and the work of US missionaries in other countries. The final section of the books is devoted to Catholic social teaching, tackling challenging and sometimes controversial subjects such as the relationship between African American Catholics and the Communist Party, Catholics in the civil rights movement, the abortion debate, issues of war and peace, and Vatican II and the American Catholic Church. Roman Catholicism in the United States examines the history of US Catholicism from a variety of perspectives that transcend the familiar account of the immigrant, urban parish, which served as the focus for so many American Catholics during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Praise for Roman Catholicism in the United States “All of the essays are informative and written in a style suitable to both novices and scholars of American Catholic history.” —Choice “Any scholar currently writing books or articles on American Catholic history would do well to pick up this volume.” —American Catholic Studies “I’ve seen the future of American Catholic studies, and it is in this superb collection of consistently engaging, provocative, and well-written essays. This is now required reading for scholars and students of the Catholic experience in the United States.” —Mark Massa, S.J., Director, The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College

Author : Ralph C. Wood
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802829993
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South written by Ralph C. Wood and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those looking to deepen their appreciation of Flannery O'Connor, Wood shows how this literary icon's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition.

Author : Una M. Cadegan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801468981
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Good Books Are Catholic Books written by Una M. Cadegan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the stance of the Roman Catholic Church toward the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of the twentieth century was largely antagonistic. Naturally opposed to secularization, skeptical of capitalist markets indifferent to questions of justice, confused and appalled by new forms of high and low culture, and resistant to the social and economic freedom of women—in all of these ways the Catholic Church set itself up as a thoroughly anti-modern institution. Yet, in and through the period from World War I to Vatican II, the Church did engage with, react to, and even accommodate various aspects of modernity. In All Good Books Are Catholic Books, Una M. Cadegan shows how the Church’s official position on literary culture developed over this crucial period. The Catholic Church in the United States maintained an Index of Prohibited Books and the National Legion of Decency (founded in 1933) lobbied Hollywood to edit or ban movies, pulp magazines, and comic books that were morally suspect. These regulations posed an obstacle for the self-understanding of Catholic American readers, writers, and scholars. But as Cadegan finds, Catholics developed a rationale by which they could both respect the laws of the Church as it sought to protect the integrity of doctrine and also engage the culture of artistic and commercial freedom in which they operated as Americans. Catholic literary figures including Flannery O’Connor and Thomas Merton are important to Cadegan’s argument, particularly as their careers and the reception of their work demonstrate shifts in the relationship between Catholicism and literary culture. Cadegan trains her attention on American critics, editors, and university professors and administrators who mediated the relationship among the Church, parishioners, and the culture at large.