Items by Mary Beth Lineberry

• New Biographies of Dorothea Lange and Thelonious Monk

  —Virginia Quarterly Review

  Two leading American cultural historians have recently shifted their sights from the close textual readings of scholarly essays and the rigorous cultural mappings of books to a wider, gentler critical plain: that of biography. It’s not the holidays yet, and these biographies are certainly no Christmas bargain-bin books, but both [...]

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by Mary Beth Lineberry

• John Crowe Ransom in VQR

  —Virginia Quarterly Review

  

  Poet, editor, teacher, and philosopher, John Crowe Ransom was also one of the most influential literary critics of the twentieth century, and the five essays he published in VQR in the 1930s reveal the evolution of his thoughts and ideas about the contemporary South and its literature.

  Ransom [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:07pm EST
  by Mary Beth Lineberry