Fugitive

Literature & Fiction

Montgomery, Marion

British & Irish

Harper&Row

The Fugitives were an influential literary group that began at Vanderbilt University in the 1920s. Although the philosophically driven alliance was short-lived, two of its members, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate, went on to become influential Southern poets and theorists. In this work, a self-proclaimed third-generation Fugitive-Agrarian concentrates on the history and mystery of nature. The author supports the recovery of fundamental principles required for the economic, social and political health of our communities. He explores Fugitive-Agrarian concepts of nature, history, science, industry, person, family and community. His discussion focuses particular attention on John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate and how they diverged in their philosophies of intellect and the written word.

John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate: At Odds about the Ends of History and the Mystery of Nature

History & Criticism

McFarland Company

Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the concept of home and the importance of home to the homo viator (“man on his way”), and anti-idealism and anti-romanticism. The differences between Welty and Percy and in their fiction were revealed in the habits of their lives. Welty spent her life in Jackson, Mississippi, and was very much a member of the community. Percy was a wanderer who finally settled in Covington, Louisiana, because it was, as he called it, a “noplace.” The author also asserts that Percy somewhat envied Welty and her stability in Jackson, and that for him, place was such a nagging concern that it became a personal problem to him as homo viator.

Eudora Welty and Walker Percy: The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Marion Montgomery, family man, citizen, professor, literary critic, poet, philosopher, is a prolific defender of the poetic, cultural and critical vision of the Fugitive poets, the Southern Agrarian writers, and the New Critics of the 20th century. He has published more than 20 major works of criticism in the past 40 years. This volume presents 16 of his essays, selected and edited by Michael M. Jordan with a foreword by noted historian Eugene D. Genovese. It is a good introduction to the thinking and writing of a man who speaks for southern conservatism with passion and imagination, with head and heart, exercising both faith and reason. This work is divided into five sections--"The Author at Work and at Home," "On Place and Region," "On Fugitives, Agrarians, and New Critics," "On Individual Authors" and "On Books and Schooling." In the essays Montgomery discusses the importance of place in all serious literature, but especially in southern letters. He notes differences between southern and northern fiction. He pays tribute to Andrew Lytle, Madison Jones, and M.E. Bradford, and explicates the fiction of Walker Percy. Taken together, the essays reveal Montgomery's gifts and temperament: a keen intellect combined with a reverential awareness of the importance of tradition.

On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000

Reference

McFarland

In the spirit of St. Thomas Aquinas, the writings of Flannery O’Connor’s concern for place can best be seen in the immediacies of things and persons. It is in relation to St. Thomas’ teaching, then, that O’Connor becomes comfortable in her “place,” Andalusia, that small farm just outside the small town of Milledgeville in middle Georgia. The abiding relationship between place—Andalusia or elsewhere—and a person comes out of human nature itself, evidenced in a person’s experiences of things in this place at this time. With that as background, this detailed analysis of O’Connor’s works lays to rest the author’s own self-deprecating description of herself as a “hillbilly” Thomist. Instead we see in O’Connor’s writing a highly sophisticated mind, an inconvenience to the many critics who dismiss her as anti-intellectual. “Readers...will be rewarded in reading [Montgomery]”—Modern Age; “I regard Marion Montgomery as one of the most acute and profound critics of present-day American culture. He brings to his discussion of it penetrating insight and solid scholarship.”—Cleanth Brooks. The book is published as a set of two volumes. Replacement volumes can be obtained individually under ISBN 0786426268 (for Volume 1) and ISBN 078642627-6 (for Volume 2).

Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas and the Limits of Art (2 Volumes)

In the spirit of St. Thomas Aquinas, the writings of Flannery O’Connor’s concern for place can best be seen in the immediacies of things and persons. It is in relation to St. Thomas’ teaching, then, that O’Connor becomes comfortable in her “place,” Andalusia, that small farm just outside the small town of Milledgeville in middle Georgia. The abiding relationship between place—Andalusia or elsewhere—and a person comes out of human nature itself, evidenced in a person’s experiences of things in this place at this time. With that as background, this detailed analysis of O’Connor’s works lays to rest the author’s own self-deprecating description of herself as a “hillbilly” Thomist. Instead we see in O’Connor’s writing a highly sophisticated mind, an inconvenience to the many critics who dismiss her as anti-intellectual. “Readers...will be rewarded in reading [Montgomery]”—Modern Age; “I regard Marion Montgomery as one of the most acute and profound critics of present-day American culture. He brings to his discussion of it penetrating insight and solid scholarship.”—Cleanth Brooks. The book is published as a set of two volumes. Replacement volumes can be obtained individually under ISBN 0786426268 (for Volume 1) and ISBN 078642627-6 (for Volume 2).

Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas, and the Limits of Art, Vol. 1

McFarland Publishing

Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas, and the Limits of Art, Vol. 2

Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/G. Dust jacket is edge worn, creased and bumped.

Liberal Arts and Community: The Feeding of the Larger Body

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Louisiana State Univ Pr

This volume examines whether virtue can be taught. In so doing, Marion Montgomery discusses the relation of virtue to the individual and describes ways in which modern thought has eroded our perception of virtue, as well as the impact this has on the family and education. Throughout the text are examples ranging from classical literature to football. The author holds that, although virtue may not be taught with any assurance that a student will thereby become virtuous, it is imperative that what has been said of virtue be formally learned, in the interest of the continuance of Western civilization and the student's opportunity to hoose. Here teacher and student are terms intended figuratively, as in the relation between parent and child or between citizen and citizen.

Virtue and Modern Shadows of Turning Preliminary Agitations

Philosophy

University Press of America

This volume examines whether virtue can be taught. In so doing, Marion Montgomery discusses the relation of virtue to the individual and describes ways in which modern thought has eroded our perception of virtue, as well as the impact this has on the family and education. Throughout the text are examples ranging from classical literature to football. The author holds that, although virtue may not be taught with any assurance that a student will thereby become virtuous, it is imperative that what has been said of virtue be formally learned, in the interest of the continuance of Western civilization and the student's opportunity to hoose. Here teacher and student are terms intended figuratively, as in the relation between parent and child or between citizen and citizen.

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Fugitive

John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate: At Odds about the Ends of History and the Mystery of Nature

Eudora Welty and Walker Percy: The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature

On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000

Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas and the Limits of Art (2 Volumes)

Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas, and the Limits of Art, Vol. 1

Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas, and the Limits of Art, Vol. 2

Liberal Arts and Community: The Feeding of the Larger Body

Virtue and Modern Shadows of Turning Preliminary Agitations

Virtue and Modern Shadows of Turning Preliminary Agitations