Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Author: Royal Dublin Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1396

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Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: Alfred Rayney Waller
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Author: Jordan J. Dominy
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496826442
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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During the Cold War, national discourse strove for unity through patriotism and political moderation to face a common enemy. Some authors and intellectuals supported that narrative by casting America’s complicated history with race and poverty as moral rather than merely political problems. Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America examines southern literature and the culture within the United States from the period just before the Cold War through the civil rights movement to show how this literature won a significant place in Cold War culture and shaped the nation through the time of Hillbilly Elegy. Tackling cultural issues in the country through subtext and metaphor, the works of authors like William Faulkner, Lillian Smith, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, and Walker Percy redefined “South” as much more than a geographical identity within an empire. The “South” has become a racially coded sociopolitical and cultural identity associated with white populist conservatism that breaks geographical boundaries and, as it has in the past, continues to have a disproportionate influence on the nation’s future and values.

Author: Carl Holliday
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: J. N. Hillgarth
Publisher: Studies and Texts
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This book explores one of the central myths of Spain: the idea that Spanish culture arose from that of the Visigoths. It begins with a sketch of Visigothic history, then proceeds to explore attitudes towards the Goths and legends and myths that developed around them from late antiquity to the twentieth century; such ideas proved influential among those who saw the Goths as their spiritual, if not literal, ancestors. The focus is on the myth of the Goths as expressed in literature of a broadly historical nature; many authors have played a significant role in forming and shaping this myth, and thus in shaping the mentality of their contemporaries and descendants. The Gothic myth was of great use to the different monarchies that succeeded the Goths after the Arabic invasion of 711. Visigothic kings were adopted as models by one age after another, from the rudimentary kingdom of Asturias in the ninth century to the world-monarchy of Spain under the Catholic Kings and the Habsburgs. Over the centuries, adroit 'improvements' on history and even outright fabrications influenced the creation of an idealized, epic past to which Spaniards look even today. This study of the evolution and persistence of the myth of Spain's Gothic roots is essential reading for scholars of Spanish history.