عناصر مشابهة
The Southern Agrarians as New Critics : From Society to Textuality and Back
| المصدر: | أعمال الندوة العلمية الدولية: النص وأفعال القراءة والفهم والتأويل |
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| الناشر: |
كلية الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية بالقيروان - مخبر تجديد مناهج البحث والبيداغوجيا في الانسانيات
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| المؤلف الرئيسي: | |
| محكمة: | نعم |
| الدولة: | تونس |
| التاريخ الميلادي: | 2014 |
| الصفحات: | 3 - 17 |
| رقم MD: | 623747 |
| نوع المحتوى: | بحوث المؤتمرات |
| قواعد المعلومات: | AraBase |
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| المستخلص: | The mid-1920s in the United States in general and in its Southern part in particular were years of fundamental changes. The opulence and plenty which characterized American society since the end of World War I started to recede as the Great Depression set in. The failure of American capitalism and its concomitant human tolls- bankruptcies, high unemployment rates, dispossessions, suicides and other losses- led many to reject the very essence of American capitalism, its fundamentals, and its future viability. It was in the South of the United States that the rejection of capitalism was the most emphatic. Some authors like Dorothy Scarborough, Edith Sumner Kelly, Elizabeth Maddox Roberts, and Erskine Caldwell- to name but few- strove mainly to draw the attention of their readers to the plight of the South’s rural and semi-urban poor: the sharecroppers and the cotton mill workers. Others, however, like Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Robert Penn Warren, John Donald Wade, and ... Frank Owsley devised “Agrarianism” as an alternative to capitalism in the South. “Agrarianism” was initially a social project which aimed at the reinstatement of the “southern pastoral ideal”. Gradually, however, it metamorphosed into a critical method as most of its proponents turned “New Critics”. The present paper looks at the Southern Agrarians as New Critics. It examines their shift from “Society to Textuality” and argues that their literary essentialism-or critical fascism one is tempted to say- damaged the critical reception of the men and women writers whose work contested the Agrarians project as it attempted, first, to reinstate the “South’s pastoral ideal” and as it worked, second, towards articulating a theory of interpretation where literary texts were approached as self-sufficient verbal icons, with concrete realities of their own, and capable of transforming and of ordering human experiences. |
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| وصف العنصر: | المقال باللغة الفرنسية |
