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The Southern Tradition and Three Individual Talents

As pointed out by reviewers and introducers, the first published collection of short stories by Eudora Welty, A Curtain of Green, by Charles East, Where the Music Was, and by Reynolds Price, The Names and Faces of Heroes, all reveal characteristics of the Southern literary tradition. An analysis of their stories does reveal the writers' adherence to traditional elements of Southern literature that includes the treatment of place, characters, blacks, and themes. Although their works fit squarely into the Southern tradition, only Eudora Welty has made an impact on this tradition with her slice-of-life stories written in a fresh, concrete language. Price and East, writing twenty years after Welty, only imitate her style and have not set a new direction for the Southern literary tradition.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504267
Date12 1900
CreatorsSchleyer, Joanna
ContributorsKobler, J. F. (Jasper Fred), 1928-, Linebarger, J. M. (James Morris), 1934-, Warde, William Booth, Jr.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formati, 72 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Schleyer, Joanna, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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