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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of Mississippi
ISBN-10087805622X
ISBN-139780878056224
eBay Product ID (ePID)24038657619
Product Key Features
Number of Pages373 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameJames Branch Cabell and Richmond-In-Virginia
SubjectAmerican / General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year1992
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorEdgar E. Macdonald
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN92-044966
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal813/.52
LC Classification NumberPS3505.A153.Z65 1993
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- 01. Dez. 2021
Comprehensively informative and a jolly good read!
This Biography of James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginia is thorough, well researched, well written, comprehensive and compelling. The author, Edgar McDonald, knows his stuff and even met Cabell. He quite rightly derides the 'psychically wounded' religious people who said Cabell's Down's syndrome son Ballard was a "judgement of God" and laughs to scorn the deluded has-beens who uphold the right-wing, fascist, anti-black sentiments of the Old South. MacDonald highlights the deeply spiritual and revolutionary nature of Cabell's writings, denying altogether the popular notion that he was a cynical dilettante who merely wrote clever satire and promulgating the idea that he was ahead of his time in his theory of human betterment through successive re-incarnations, while at the same time indulging his gift for biting criticism of his fellow men, seasoned with a razor-sharp wit and an acute sense of society's idiocies and shortcomings. In short, this is an excellent tome and a welcome addition to one's appreciation of an unfairly neglected and important writer of genius.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
