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| 提及的人: | W J Cash; William Faulkner; Wendell Berry; Will D Campbell; Lee Smith; Clyde Edgerton; Maya Angelou; Fred Chappell |
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| 材料类型: | 文献, 硕士论文/博士论文, 政府刊物, 州政府或者省政府刊物, 互联网资源 |
| 文件类型: | 互联网资源, 计算机文档 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Dana J Nichols |
| OCLC号码: | 150932662 |
| 注意: | Thomas L. McHaney, Pearl A. McHaney, committee co-chairs; Matthew Roudane, committee member. Electronic text (170 p.) : digital, PDF file. Title from title screen. Description based on contents viewed July 3, 2007. |
| 详述: | System requirements: PC, World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| 内容: | Y'all go out and make us proud, you hear : introduction -- The golden warp and woof of legend : commencement address as social indicator : W.J. Cash, William Faulkner -- Now you know the worst : commencement address as apologia : Wendell Berry, Will D. Campbell -- Mow 'em down, rev 'em up, get some excitement going : commencement address as performance : Lee Smith, Clyde Egerton -- You'r and educated feller, ain't you : commencement address as debate : Maya Angelou, Fred Chappell. |
| 责任: | Dana J. Nichols. |
摘要:
The college commencement address is traditionally regarded as the low point of an otherwise auspicious occasion. An ephemeral form of ceremonial oratory, the commencement speech is reviled for its conventional platitudes, its easy piety, and its abstractions on the well-lived life, the sunny future, and the ethics of adulthood. The South may differ, however, in its approach to the commencement speech genre, especially in the years between World War II and the millennium, when one of the South's most significant assets became the southern writer. Throughout this dissertation, I have tried to situate eight commencement addresses given by such prominent and dissimilar writers as W.J. Cash, William Faulkner, Wendell Berry, Will D. Campbell, Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, Maya Angelou, and Fred Chappell, within the context of the times in which they were delivered and within the speakers' written works. Through my analysis of these graduation talks, I discovered that southern writers typically abandon those repetitious conventions that render the commencement address forgettable in favor of the innovative techniques that were already at work in their written works.
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- American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
- Baccalaureate addresses -- History and criticism.
- Cash, W. J. -- (Wilbur Joseph), -- 1900-1941.
- Faulkner, William, -- 1897-1962.
- Berry, Wendell, -- 1934-
- Campbell, Will D.
- Smith, Lee, -- 1944-
- Edgerton, Clyde, -- 1944-
- Angelou, Maya.
- Chappell, Fred, -- 1936-
