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Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks in Jackson - First Publications
(1988)
Fifteenth Segment: Welty discusses her first published writings in The Southern Review, and of how it took her agent two years to get her stories published in The Atlantic Monthly,... Genre: Educational Keywords: Eudora Welty; Cleanth Brooks; American literature; southern literature; Atlantic Monthly; Southern Review; publiccation; literary agent; female writers; southern writers; Duration: 00:01:29 Popularity (downloads): 396 |
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Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks in Jackson - Writer's Role in Society
(1988)
Seventeenth Segment: Cleanth Brooks observes that much of Southern life could be reconstructed from the novels of such writers as Walker Percy, Peter Taylor and Eudora Welty, since such writers... Genre: Educational Keywords: Eudora Welty; Cleanth Brooks; American literature; southern literature; Walker Percy; Peter Taylor; Faulkner; Southern society; literature and society; Duration: 00:03:31 Popularity (downloads): 333 |
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Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks in Jackson - The Optimist's Daughter
(1988)
Seventh Segment: Cleanth Brooks notes that Walker Percy gave a warning to young Southern writers, to the effect that they have to face up to situations of change. He asks... Genre: Educational Keywords: Eudora Welty; Cleanth Brooks; American literature; southern literature; Walker Percy; writing; novels; Optimist's Daughter; change; Duration: 00:02:30 Popularity (downloads): 306 |
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Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks in Jackson - Young Southern Writers
(1988)
Ninth Segment: In response to a question about some of Welty's "historical" writings, she observes that she was writing about the present at that time, and not about the mysterious... Genre: Educational Keywords: Eudora Welty; Cleanth Brooks; American literature; southern literature; past; present; history; literature; Duration: 00:01:16 Popularity (downloads): 218 |
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Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks in Jackson - Role of the Critic
(1988)
Third Segment: Cleanth Brooks observes that the problem of the writer differs from the problem of the critic who must be more conscious. But Welty observes that ultimately they must... Genre: Educational Keywords: Eudora Welty; Cleanth Brooks; American literature; southern literature; literary criticism; critics; writers; Duration: 00:00:45 Popularity (downloads): 304 |
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Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks in Jackson - Telling the Truth Obliquely
(1988)
Eighteenth Segment: Welty and Brooks discuss the differences in truth between the propaganda novel and the work of literary art. The difference, they agree, is that--rephrasing Emily Dickinson--writers should tell... Genre: Educational Keywords: Eudora Welty; Cleanth Brooks; American literature; southern literature; truth; literary truth; propaganda; indirection; Emily Dickinson; Shakespeare; Duration: 00:02:02 Popularity (downloads): 337 |
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Plantation System in Southern Life, The
(1950)
Eurocentric view of the plantation system and its effect on Southern U.S. culture. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Race relations;Ethnography: U.S.: South;African Americans; Duration: 00:10:07 Popularity (downloads): 883 |
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What to Do on a Date
(1950)
A high school senior learns how and where to ask a girl for a date, where to take her for a good time, and how to avoid spending too much... Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Social guidance;Dating;Teenagers; Duration: 00:10:45 Popularity (downloads): 1049 |
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America's Millenium on the Mall - Blues: Past and Future - Introduction of William Ferris and B.B. King
(2000)
In the first segment Stephen Yessum, Director of the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Washington D.C., introduces William Ferris and B.B. King. Genre: Educational Keywords: Future of the Blues; B.B. King; Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; William Ferris; author; folklorist; film maker; academic administrator; Encyclopedia of Southern Culture; Director of Center for Southern Culture; plays guitar; Duration: 00:01:17 Popularity (downloads): 310 |
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Permanent Change Of Station-Southern Europe B
Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Duration: 00:00:00 Popularity (downloads): 268 |
