Blood and Memory
In Blood and Memory the story of the son annotates the story of the father. That is an old theme, in the literature of the South and elsewhere. Robert Benson handles it without sparing, pitying, or psycho-mythologically aggrandizing himself. The substance of his book is anecdotal; the tone is low-keyed and even-keeled. His contemplation of his own life unexpectedly brought into my mind a writer he apparently knows well enough to have utterly metabolized: Geoffrey Chaucer. - Franklin Burroughs Blood and Memory cuts a long deep furrow through time and place. Robert Benson ploughs the rich black topsoil of family and digs into the clay beneath,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-881515-91-3
- EAN: 9781881515913
- Produktnummer: 2449581
- Verlag: Texas Review Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 245 g
- Gewicht: 245
Über den Autor
ROBERT BENSON, a native of New Orleans, was educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and taught at the University of Southern Mississippi, Southeastern Louisiana University, the University of Dallas, and the University of Georgia before moving to Sewanee, Tennessee, where he teaches medieval English literature at the University of the South. He has published work on Chaucer, Andrew Lytle, John Donald Wade, Cormac McCarthy, J. F. Powers, and others, and he is a regular contributor to the periodical press, particularly to The Sewanee Review.
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