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Sometimes an image can teach us more about our times than volumes of exposition. This is especially the case when it is a poet who has framed the image, finding a meaningful metaphor in the raw materials of a familiar world. When, in the spring of 1961, the Southern literary critic Donald Davidson cast about for a contemporary historian whose views would chastise his "too, too Southern flesh," he turned to C. Vann Woodward. In an address delivered at Nashville's Belmont College, Davidson spoke of sitting "puritanically upright" in an "uncomfortable chair," enduring the requisite mortification of reading Woodward's The Burden of Southern History. Clearly the Tennessee traditionalist knew what he was doing when he selected a representative of the "new breed" of Southern scholars as a symbolic adversary, and The Burden of Southern History to represent that new breed.

The Strange Career of C Vann Woodward eBook ME Bradford

Sharp, tho a bit testy. It is hard word, as C V W knew, to drag doctrinaire Southerners out of the 19th century.

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  • File Size 282 KB
  • Print Length 17 pages
  • Publisher The World and I Online (January 28, 2014)
  • Publication Date January 28, 2014
  • Language English
  • ASIN B00HYNTYGM

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Sharp, tho a bit testy. It is hard word, as C V W knew, to drag doctrinaire Southerners out of the 19th century.
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