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Andrew Nelson Lytle (1902–1995)

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20+ obres 308 Membres 5 Ressenyes 3 preferits

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Obres de Andrew Nelson Lytle

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As I Lay Dying [Norton Critical Edition] (2009) — Col·laborador — 544 exemplars
Modern Age: The First Twenty-Five Years (1810) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
Who Owns America: A New Declaration of Independence (1970) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (1986) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
The Unbought Grace of Life: Essays in Honor of Russell Kirk (1999) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Lytle, Andrew Nelson
Data de naixement
1902-12-26
Data de defunció
1995-12-12
Lloc d'enterrament
University of the South Cemetery, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
Lloc de defunció
Monteagle, Tennessee, USA
Llocs de residència
Sewanee, Tennessee, USA
Madison County, Alabama, USA
Marshall County, Alabama, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
New York, New York, USA
Educació
Vanderbilt University (BA ∙ 1925)
Yale University
University of Oxford (Exeter College)
Sewanee Military Academy
Professions
novelist
short-story writer
essayist
professor
editor
literary critic (mostra-les totes 7)
actor
Relacions
Warren, Robert Penn (friend)
Tate, Allen (friend)
Ransom, John Crowe (friend)
Davidson, Donald (friend)
Baker, George Pierce (teacher)
O'Connor, Flannery (student) (mostra-les totes 12)
Crews, Harry (student)
Gerber, Merrill Joan (student)
Brooks, Cleanth (friend)
Sullivan, Walter (student)
Dickey, James (student)
Mims, Edwin (teacher)
Organitzacions
The Agrarians
The Sewanee Review (editor)
Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
Association of Literary Magazines of America
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
University of the South (professor) (mostra-les totes 8)
University of Florida (professor ∙ started MFA program)
Iowa Writers' Workshop (instructor)
Premis i honors
Guggenheim Fellowship ( [1940, 1941, 1960])
Kenyon Review Fellowship (1956)
Richard M. Weaver Award (1986)
National Foundation on Arts and Letters grant (1966-67)
Litt.D., Kenyon College (1965)
Litt.D., University of Florida (1970) (mostra-les totes 7)
Order of the South

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A Name for Evil. Andrew Nelson Lytle. 1947. Creepy. I found this book on a list of lesser known horror novels around Halloween. Lytle is considered an “Alabama Author” by the Alabama Library Association guidelines, and he was part of the Agrarian movement started by John Crowe Ransom in reaction to H.L. Mencken’s criticism of the South. And the novel is full or descriptions of the rural landscape and farmland. Our narrator has found an old abandoned farm and he and his wife plan to recover the land and restore the house. We are drawn into the mysterious sense of danger and evil almost immediately and know that disaster is inevitable. The ghost appears within the first few pages and we are drawn in to see if the ghost wins… (més)
 
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judithrs | Jan 7, 2018 |
Startling detail of the De Soto Expedition, Lytle puts us into to heads of the Spanish and by way of Ortiz, a released captive, the Indians. The story is mostly of contradictory righteousness, which slowly leads away from gold lust toward mere survival. The army's approach is appeasment, slavery, torture and slaughter. The violence is numbing and graphic. A key confrontation between De Sota as Governor an a mission of God's, and the head priest, who speaks for God about the strategy of the mission. The various authorities of the Indian clans are often set up as counters to De Soto's changing standards of honor.

While mostly from the point of view of a trusted but disgrace soldier, Tovar, Lytle shifts into raw narrative and a few Ortiz stories. The shifts are disjointed, and the jumps from Cutifichiqui to Mauvella to Guachoya are jarring. The novel has more value as history than entertainment. The novel is heavily based on U.S. De Sota Expedition Commission Report of 1939. Reading one of the novel or report should suffice unless the reader is pursuing an academic investigation of the styles and effects of historical fiction.
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DromJohn | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Feb 29, 2008 |
I would not call this book entertaining; however, it has its merits. Well researched but I think only someone with a doctorate degree in literature and history would fully appreciate this book. I compare it to Deliverance in the fact that a movie version would be more popular. You can tell a poet wrote Deliverance and like Dickey's novel; people that love the movie may not like the book. Bring out the humor of herding pigs along the path of conquest and you might have a screenplay.
 
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rareflorida | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Dec 22, 2007 |
In this area of the house are 8 copies of this book.
signed #90
signed #93
signed #57
signed #296
signed #0
signed #88
signed #295
signed #36
 
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lrenaj | Dec 9, 2019 |

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Obres
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També de
10
Membres
308
Popularitat
#76,456
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
5
ISBN
18
Preferit
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