Southern Writers and the Machine: Faulkner to Percy traces the artistic treatment of mechanization among two generations of Southern writers. The book studies the artistic and philosophical responses to the increasing mechanization of the South in the work of Faulkner, Tate, O'Connor, Styron, Gaines, and Percy. It argues that these writers were working within a self-conscious aesthetic tradition which evolved out of the southern writer's unique position in relation to a past traditional order and a rapidly emerging future industrial society. The book breaks new ground by analyzing in close detail the relationship between the historical fact of mechanization and the artistic strategies employed in response to it.
| ISBN: | 9780820418568 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 1993 |
| Author: | Jeffrey J Folks |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 173 pages |
| Series: | Worcester Polytechnic Institute Studies in Science, Technology, and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Language teaching theory and methods |
Southern Writers and the Machine: Faulkner to Percy traces the artistic treatment of mechanization among two generations of Southern writers. The book studies the artistic and philosophical responses to the increasing mechanization of the South in the work of Faulkner, Tate, O'Connor, Styron, Gaines, and Percy. It argues that these writers were working within a self-conscious aesthetic tradition which evolved out of the southern writer's unique position in relation to a past traditional order and a rapidly emerging future industrial society. The book breaks new ground by analyzing in close detail the relationship between the historical fact of mechanization and the artistic strategies employed in response to it.
Southern Writers and the Machine features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Language teaching theory and methods
Southern Writers and the Machine is available in Hardback
Southern Writers and the Machine was written by Jeffrey J Folks and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Southern Writers and the Machine has 173 pages
Yes it is part of Worcester Polytechnic Institute Studies in Science, Technology, and Culture series