Literary New Orleans in the Modern World

by Richard S. Kennedy

Book Overview

Cleanth Brooks may have summarized it best: New Orleans has become one of the cities of the mind, and is therefore immortal. Its writers make it so. Like Richard S. Kennedy's earlier collection Literary New Orleans, > these nine essays explore the belletristic Crescent City -- its history, authors, myths, and realities. This volume focuses on twentieth-century New Orleans, beginning with modernism's brief blooming in the 1920s, followed by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807131598
• ISBN13: 9780807131596
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.7"