James H Justus
Biographic Data
| ID | 5701306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James H Justus |
| GIVEN NAMES | James H |
| FAMILY NAME | Justus |
| SIGNATURE | JUSTUS J H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fetching the Old Southwest
Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain. By James H. Justus. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 578. $54.95.) Fetch n. A contrivance, dodge, stratagem, trick. v. To go in quest of; to steal (Obs.); to succeed in bringing (Now rare); to move to interest. . . . to close in upon, surround; to enclose, take in; to cheat (Obs.). -Oxford English Dictionary This is the source of the title of James H. J…
Walker Percy
Walker Percy
The American Novel
The Survival Tales of John Hersey
Then & Now
The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren
Nineteenth-Century Southern Literature
Few inhabitants of the South in 1800 thought of it as a or of themselves as southerners. In time, the need to defend the entire southern way of life became obsessive for many writers, too often precluding efforts at originality in form or style. Especially after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, southern identity and southern nationalism emerged as the grand themes, and literature became subservient to regional interests. The devastation of t…
Literary Disruptions
Robert Penn Warren
The Grim Phoenix
Vonnegut
Jack Kerouac
Web of Being
Hawthorne's Coverdale
W 7HEN HE DECIDED to draw heavily upon his experiences at Brook Farm for The Blithedale Romance, Hawthorne aggressively confronted for the first time in his fiction the abundant materials of the present. Although his letters and notebooks reveal an urgency to define, work within, and preserve a synecdochic present-that narrow strip of sunlight which we call Now-his third extended fiction was the closest Hawthorne was ever to come to the beef-and-…
Hawkes
John Crowe Ransom
Arthur Mervyn, American
John Crowe Ransom
A Note on John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren
Warren's World Enough and Time and Beauchamp's Confession
A LMOST AS SOON AS ROBERT PENN WARREN S World Enough and Time appeared in I950, its source, the Confession of Jereboam 0. Beauchamp (I826), was identified and discussed.' Although there are at least one unpublished dissertation on the relationship between the two titles2 and some general remarks on the subject in Leonard Casper's recent book,3 Warren's specific use of the Kentucky materials has yet to be documented. What has been commented on-to …
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Warren's World Enough and Time and Beauchamp's Confession
A LMOST AS SOON AS ROBERT PENN WARREN S World Enough and Time appeared in I950, its source, the Confession of Jereboam 0. Beauchamp (I826), was identified and discussed.' Although there are at least one unpublished dissertation on the relationship between the two titles2 and some general remarks on the subject in Leonard Casper's recent book,3 Warren's specific use of the Kentucky materials has yet to be documented. What has been commented on-to …
A Note on John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren
Arthur Mervyn, American
John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom
Hawkes
Hawthorne's Coverdale
W 7HEN HE DECIDED to draw heavily upon his experiences at Brook Farm for The Blithedale Romance, Hawthorne aggressively confronted for the first time in his fiction the abundant materials of the present. Although his letters and notebooks reveal an urgency to define, work within, and preserve a synecdochic present-that narrow strip of sunlight which we call Now-his third extended fiction was the closest Hawthorne was ever to come to the beef-and-…
Web of Being
Jack Kerouac
Vonnegut
Robert Penn Warren
The Grim Phoenix
Nineteenth-Century Southern Literature
Few inhabitants of the South in 1800 thought of it as a or of themselves as southerners. In time, the need to defend the entire southern way of life became obsessive for many writers, too often precluding efforts at originality in form or style. Especially after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, southern identity and southern nationalism emerged as the grand themes, and literature became subservient to regional interests. The devastation of t…
Literary Disruptions
The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren
Then & Now
The Survival Tales of John Hersey
The American Novel
Walker Percy
Walker Percy
Fetching the Old Southwest
Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain. By James H. Justus. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 578. $54.95.) Fetch n. A contrivance, dodge, stratagem, trick. v. To go in quest of; to steal (Obs.); to succeed in bringing (Now rare); to move to interest. . . . to close in upon, surround; to enclose, take in; to cheat (Obs.). -Oxford English Dictionary This is the source of the title of James H. J…
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