Literary New Orleans in the Modern World
Author | : Richard S. Kennedy |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2006-03-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 0807131598 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780807131596 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Download or read book Literary New Orleans in the Modern World written by Richard S. Kennedy and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleanth Brooks may have summarized it best: "New Orleans has become one of the cities of the mind, and is therefore immortal." Its writers make it so. Like Richard S. Kennedy's earlier collection Literary New Orleans,> these nine essays explore the belletristic Crescent City -- its history, authors, myths, and realities. This volume focuses on twentieth-century New Orleans, beginning with modernism's brief blooming in the 1920s, followed by the fading of New Orleans's peculiarly dreamy romanticism and the flourishing of a distinctive realism, and concluding with a recurrence and transformation of the earlier romantic strain in contemporary Gothic and mystery fiction. Literary New Orleans in the Modern World provides chapters in the history of a unique American city, written in the very spirit of New Orleans as it has cast its spell on writers.