Notes from After the Deluge.

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  • Author(s): Dillard, R. H. W.
  • Source:
    Sewanee Review. Spring2005, Vol. 113 Issue 2, p337-343. 7p.
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    • Abstract:
      Presents literary criticism which argues that in this time of crash and confusion in the literary and scholarly worlds as well as their larger counterpart, there are some signs of hope for at least a partial restoration of something approximating rational order. Scholarly books are beginning to be written and published in clear pose, readable prose, and even stylish prose. Two published books offer interesting examples of the submodes of literary history. One, Myles Weber's "Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish," is a study of literary reputation and how it is manipulated and sustained. The other, David Castronovo's "Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That Made American Culture," is an attempt to place the literary decade of the 1950s as a "third flowering of American talent" on a par with the American Renaissance of the 1830s through 1860s.