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re: Missouri is a partially Southern state
Posted on 6/6/13 at 12:52 am to JB14
Posted on 6/6/13 at 12:52 am to JB14
The original post's thesis is fair enough. I just got through explaining that Mizzou is a Midwestern state with definite Southern influence in certain parts (before I saw this). I think the OP is fair enough in his description here. Tho' I would advise the OP that every non-Southeastern/those who don't originate in the traditional South (VA, NC, TN, AL, GA, Miss, FL, SC, LA*) are subject to question. Even other traditional members of the Upper South like KY come down to where in KY one is from. The same for MD and by-God-West Virginia!
*Louisiana though southern has always been in a league all it's own.
We could already do that given his connections to Tennessee as well as the fact he was likely conceived here.
*Louisiana though southern has always been in a league all it's own.
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If that means we southerners can lay claim to Sam Clemens as one of our own, then I'm inclined agree with you.
We could already do that given his connections to Tennessee as well as the fact he was likely conceived here.
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Posted on 6/6/13 at 12:59 am to Prof
From the standpoint of literary criticism, I struggle with Clemens' proper classification.
He at one point enlisted in the Confederate Army, yet on several occasions refused to self-identify as a southerner. Perhaps he, like Styron nearly a century later, refused to do so because he felt his art debased by being constrained into a "southern" school.
Unlike most southern writers of the period (save, perhaps, George Cable) he actually produced something greater than the superficial re-hashing of truisms that characterized the section's literature until the mid-1920's with Faulkner, Wolfe, et al. & the Southern "renascence."
He at one point enlisted in the Confederate Army, yet on several occasions refused to self-identify as a southerner. Perhaps he, like Styron nearly a century later, refused to do so because he felt his art debased by being constrained into a "southern" school.
Unlike most southern writers of the period (save, perhaps, George Cable) he actually produced something greater than the superficial re-hashing of truisms that characterized the section's literature until the mid-1920's with Faulkner, Wolfe, et al. & the Southern "renascence."
This post was edited on 6/6/13 at 1:28 am
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