
	Where results make sense

Topic: Southern Renaissance

In the News (Tue 14 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Southern Renaissance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Southern Renaissance was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, and Robert Penn Warren, among others.
		Prior to this renaissance, Southern writers tended to focus on historical romances about the "Lost Cause" of the South's Civil War defeat and the "idyllic culture" that existed before the war (known as the Antebellum South).
		Among the writers of the Southern Renaissance, William Faulkner is arguably the most influential and famous, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Renaissance (334 words)

	Southern literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Southern literature (sometimes called the Literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region.
		In the 1920s and '30s, a renaissance in Southern literature began with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Tennessee Williams, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren.
		Because of the distance the Southern Renaissance authors had from the American Civil War and slavery, they were more objective in their writings about the South.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_literature (1721 words)

	The Walker Percy Project
		The Southern Renaissance refers roughly to the period between the two world wars when Southern writers were far enough in time from the Civil War and slavery to regard their region with some degree of objectivity through the techniques of international modernism, such as stream of consciousness, complex points of view, and jarring juxtapositions.
		The second major theme of the Southern Renaissance, the individual's relationship to his or her community, is closely linked to the burden of the past.
		In contrast, the Southern individual's identity or honor is based on his or her standing in his community, and that standing is largely based on the family, whose standing, in turn, is determined by the burden of the Southern past.
	www.ibiblio.org /wpercy/makowsky.html (3400 words)

	What Makes Southern Literature Southern -- Southern Literary Review
		Southern literature is defined as literature about the South, written by authors who were either brought up in the South, spent many years in the South, or came from southern parents.
		Characteristics of southern literature are: the significance of family, a sense of community and one’s role within it, the community's dominating religion and the burden religion often brings, land and the promise it brings, and the use of southern dialect.
		It was during the Southern Renaissance that William Faulkner introduced us to his complex narrative techniques as in As I Lay Dying and Katherine Anne Porter used religious symbolism in her collection of short stories.
	www.southernlitreview.com /whatmakes.htm (428 words)

	Library of Southern Literature: Regionalism and Local Color
		Although not all southern local color writing depicted the South in such romanticized terms, the exotic and quaint characteristics of this region were dominant motifs.
		Southern writers after the Civil War wrote about a variety of places and people, providing a sense of the diversity of the South.
		At the turn of the century regional writing in the South was still evident, as in the Virginia-based novels of Ellen Glasgow, whose work attempted a more realistic depiction of the strength and weaknesses of the South.
	docsouth.unc.edu /southlit/regionalism.html (916 words)

	Library of Southern Literature: Black Literature
		Southern fls emerged, though, as the dominant voices in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, and thereafter they remained in the vanguard of fl poets in America.
		Grounding his poetic technique in musical forms whose origins were southern and fl and which, to a large extent, had evolved from the religious orientation of southern fls, Hughes used blues and jazz to shape the form and meaning of his poetry.
		Southerners Sterling Brown, Arna Bontemps, Margaret Walker, and Melvin B. Tolson were among fl America's leading poets between the end of the Harlem Renaissance and the 1960s.
	docsouth.unc.edu /southlit/blacklit.html (2024 words)

	Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The: "An Experiment in Southern Letters" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Reviewer was an important organ for the early phase of the Southern Renaissance, although its career was marked by ambivalence: it was at times progressive and nostalgic, iconoclastic and sentimental, southern and not-southern.
		It was not a marquee sign for southern literary or cultural progress, but rather it provides good insight into the roots of the literary awakening of the 1920s, which was a culture torn between the past and the future-its identity, its progress.
		The Southern Renaissance was not a product of a culture that was sure of itself, but a culture that was beginning to question itself.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3644/is_200501/ai_n14800386 (1177 words)

	Idealism and Insanity
		The embodiment of Southern hospitality and charm, the perfect balancing of beauty and modesty, the highest achievement of Southern refinement and culture--the Southern belle is a means of identification with the Old South as familiar as grits, Tobacco Road, and King Cotton.
		Southerners' notions of their aristocratic origins assured that the belle would be protected from reality, championed, and wooed as befits a princess in her realm" (Seidel 5-6).
		The Southern Renaissance is a title applied to the body of writing generated by Southern authors during the early and early-mid twentieth century.
	www.uiowa.edu /~smack/archive/smack1.1/ess1.htm (2943 words)

	Southern Scribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Simpson then examines the texts of the Agrarians, particularly Allen Tate, in terms of fables they are narrating: southern reaction to industrialization, Agrarian poets as the last Europeans, reaction to progressive history, and finally pulling from these texts the Agrarians' transformation of the South into a symbol of "vital opposition" to industrial capitalism.
		Walker Percy marks an instance of Southern writers distancing themselves from the Civil War and the concerns of the Agrarians, and thus in Simpson's eyes, marking the end of the Renaissance.
		What does strike scholars of Southern letters as dated is Simpson's pardoning his exclusion of African-American Southern writers and Southern women writers from his study of autobiographical impulses in Southern letters--an impulse acutely felt and beautifully acted on by just these writers that are left out of Simpson's canon.
	www.southernscribe.com /reviews/literary_criticism/fable_writer.htm (896 words)

	Library of Southern Literature: Humor in Literature
		Southern humor, like much of the best southern writing in general, has been boisterous and physical, often grotesque, and generally realistic.
		Southern humor fits fairly well into the chronological framework of four periods usually applied to American humor generally: (1) 1830 to 1860, (2) 1860 to 1925, (3) 1935 to 1945, and (4) 1945 to the present.
		Southern humor—at least that written by southerners—would henceforth be a leaven in the hard brown bread of literature.
	docsouth.unc.edu /southlit/humor.html (1190 words)

	Outside Links Related to Blackshires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Blackshires is one of the member-groups within the Guild and represents the main force of the English infantry in the regiment.
		The Bankeside Schole of Defense is an historical stage combat school, located in Southern California, that is dedicated to the study of European swordsmanship with an emphasis on Italian 16th century rapier fighting.
		The San Diego Renaissance Faire is an event held in September by the Creative History Center for the Perfoming Arts.
	www.blackshires.org /links.html (1085 words)

	Southern renaissance art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		southern renaissance art jacket and flower, therefore by his laborers.
		he waked with the emonstrated by some southern renaissance art put desperate courage in processes, in salt-water silt, submerged it may enrich it by their sowe sure stiches; little heares Flamines, a sacerdotal her.
		southern renaissance art described and lying in the road.
	southern-renaissance-art.zines.ilawa.pl (311 words)

	THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of literature (and to a lesser extent other arts) in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s, has long been considered by many to be the high point in African American writing.
		Although the Renaissance was not a school, nor did the writers associated with it share a common purpose, nevertheless they had a common bond: they dealt with Black life from a Black perspective.
		While the Renaissance is often thought of as solely a literary movement, some historians of the period also include artists and musicians.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/ethnicstudies/harlem.html (393 words)

	Southern Literature : Women Writers
		Southern literature can be defined as literature about the South, written by authors who were raised in the South.
		Characteristics of southern literature are: the importance of family, sense of community, importance of religion, importance of time and place, exploration of the past, sense of human limitation (moral dilemma), and use of southern voice and dialect.
		Southern novels can be used in English classes as well as in history or social studies classes.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/southwomen.htm (875 words)

	American Passages - Unit 13. Southern Renaissance: Instructor Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Ku Klux Klan, which had virtually disappeared in the first decade of the twentieth century, was reborn in 1915 and remained a formidable force in U.S. politics and race relations--particularly in the South--for the next ten years.
		Unit 13, "Southern Renaissance," explores some of the ways writers who either lived in, wrote about, or were otherwise associated with the South between 1920 and 1950 responded to the many changes during the period.
		Through an exploration of the historical and literary contexts with which the Southern Renaissance was most concerned, the video, the archive, and the curriculum materials work together to give students a broad understanding of "the South" within the larger fabric of U.S. history in the early twentieth century.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit13/instructor.html (1016 words)

	Pathfinder- Guide to Southern Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Common themes used by Southern writers are a sense of place, strong family relationships and a rich tapestry of language and character.
		Contains a list of 125 great southern books that were compiled from a poll of book editors, publishers, scholars and reviewers of the "most remarkable works of twentieth century southern literature." Includes the top 25 Great Southern Books in order and the next 100 Great Southern Books.
		King, Richard, A Southern Renaissance: the Cultural Awakening of the American South, 1930-1955.
	www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us /pathfinders/southernauthors/swriters.html (757 words)

	Notes Week Nine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This extraordinary flourishing of literature was all the more unexpected because it occurred in a region declared by Franklin D. Roosevelt as the nation's number one economic problem and ridiculed by Baltimorean critic H. Mencken as a place that "for all its size and all its wealth and all the "progress" it babbles of.
		That iconoclastic group of young academics eventually became the defining force behind the "Southern Renaissance," on the one hand writing numerous novels and poems and stories, but more importantly, on the other, writing criticism, reviews and textbooks that both re-defined the importance of the South and defined which writers were "truly" Southern.
		As Weeks and Perry observe, the parallel "renaissance" of African American literature was in fact dominated by fl writers who had fled the oppressions of the Jim Crow South for the cities--Detroit, Chicago, New York--and were engaged in redefining both the region and its culture for themselves.
	www.georgetown.edu /crossroads/conversations/cases/ewell/wk9note.html (623 words)

	Center for Cultural Leadership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		She received a doctorate from Vanderbilt University and is the author of many articles on literary criticism and two volumes on Southern literature, and she edited or co edited several other volumes on literature for both scholars and general readers.
		Dr. Cowan is important because of her role in the Southern Literary Renaissance as both scholar and participant, her understanding of literature and scholarly accomplishments in that field, and her achievements as a teacher.
		She was a colleague of such renowned Southern thinkers as novelist Caroline Gordon, who Dr. Cowan brought to the University of Dallas as a teacher when Ms.
	www.christianculture.com /cgi-local/npublisher/viewnews.cgi?category=3&id=1111514201 (1577 words)

	MUW - Southern Women’s Institute
		In her areas of interest – particularly William Faulkner, gender, women writers, feminist theory, and southern cultures – she has delivered 35 invited keynote or plenary addresses for conferences in Russia, Poland, Norway, France, England, the U.S.A., and Japan, and given numerous invited lectures on U.S. campuses from Yale to Miami.
		Jones was a visiting professor at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi this fall, and she has served one year as a visiting professor at University of Missouri, Rolla, and one year as a resident fellow at Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in Charlottesville.
		The Southern Women's Institute, which is housed in Orr Chapel on the MUW campus, serves as a multi-disciplinary center for the study of southern women in both traditional and non-traditional roles.
	www.muw.edu /swi/scholar.htm (872 words)

	JAST 10 - Garate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A major aspect of what is termed Southern Renaissance literature in the US is known to be a striking obsession with the past.
		Thus, US Southern Renaissance fiction is characterized by its depiction of the tension, in Southern society, between tradition and modernity.
		The fact is that “the past is no longer vital, as it was for Southerners of the early twentieth century who struggled to comprehend the modern experience from a perspective of community and shared history,” as Robert H. Brinkmeyer explains (24).
	www.bilkent.edu.tr /~jast/Number10/Garate.html (3680 words)

	-- MONAS.nl -- article - the northern tradition in the Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Renaissance is characterised by a renewed interest in forgotten beliefs and cultures, a rapid development in the current beliefs and cultures and a disengaging from the scholastic Middle Ages.
		Jan van Gorp (or Goropius Becanus (1518-1572)) said that "the ancestors of Antwerpians were the Cimbriants, the direct descendents of the sons of Japheth who had not been present under the Tower of Babel and thus kept the perfect language" (Eco).
		Worm was one of the first to study the rune-stones that could be found throughout Denmark (he also wrote a rune-calender), also he has been in contact with the early Rosicrucians.
	www.monas.nl /think/northernrenaissance.htm (3156 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The role of the Southern white woman as scripted by the Southern family romance, according to King, was intensely self-contradictory.
		At the same time, she was expected to be morally pure to the point of asexuality, a quality of character that sometimes extended to the loss of any emotional or nurturing capacities whatsoever.
		Faulkner’s portrait of three generations of Southern women—Caroline, Caddy, and Quentin Compson—may be read as a critique of the devastating effects of this cultural myth on the lives of Southern women as they struggle, respectively, to live up to, compromise with, or rebel against the feminine roles prescribed for them by the Southern family romance.
	www.southernct.edu /~petriep/policy-prospectus.htm (817 words)

	Renaissance Faires
		Renaissance Entertainment Corporation (Owners of faires in California, New York, and Wisconsin).
		New Jersey Renaissance Festival and Kingdom in Somerset, New Jersey.
		Southern Renaissance Pleasure Faire in San Bernardino, California.
	www.the-meissners.org /ren.html (704 words)

	Ann Waldron - Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance
		For some 30 years she was almost the nurturing center of that loose group of Southern writers and Catholic converts who figure largely in our literary history.
		A workaholic, superbly competent, and generous of her time and energy to a fault, she seems to have embraced wholly the ideal of submissive womanhood and mercilessly chastised herself for her failures to live up to it.
		Although Gordon always had a writing room in each of the many houses in which {she and her huband Allen Tate} lived and entertained,a life of her own has proved difficult for Ann Waldron to extract from the general bookish racket surrounding it.
	www.annwaldron.com /work6.htm (866 words)

	Oxford University Press: Away Down South: James C. Cobb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As Cobb demonstrates, the legend of the aristocratic Cavalier origins of southern planter society was nurtured by both northern and southern writers, only to be challenged by abolitionist critics, fl and white.
		After the Civil War, defeated and embittered southern whites incorporated the Cavalier myth into the cult of the "Lost Cause," which supplied the emotional energy for their determined crusade to rejoin the Union on their own terms.
		The Southern self-image underwent another sea change in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when the end of white supremacy shook the old definition of the "Southern way of life"--but at the same time, African Americans began to examine their southern roots more openly and embrace their regional, as well as racial, identity.
	www.us.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/~~/cHI9MTAmcGY9MCZzcz1wdWJkYXRlLmFzYyZzZj1jb21pbmdzb29uJnNkPWFzYyZ2aWV3PXVzYSZjaT0wMTk1MDg5NTk2 (758 words)

	Welcome to this web site honoring the life
		Observing the growing conservatism of the circus during this period, Robert Penn Warren and other authors of the Southern Renaissance found it complemented their representations of both the mythic Old South and the cultural stagnation resulting from allegiance to it, especially in light of social and moral imperatives to adapt to the New South.
		She then goes on to examine the ways in which authors such as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Katherine Anne Porter, Caroline Gordon, Eudora Welty, and Ralph Ellison also use the metaphor alternately to mourn and to celebrate changes in both the tenor of the South and the vehicle of the carnival.
		Even contemporary heirs to the Southern Renaissance, such as Toni Morrison, use the circus trope to similar effect.
	www.robertpennwarren.com /PatBradleyNewBook2.htm (367 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)