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Marion Montgomery
Paying special attention to the Romantic poets from Wordsworth and Coleridge down to Pound and Eliot, Marion Montgomgery explores the disorientation of image and methaphor for reality. Two species of…
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Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though they were interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the…
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In this work, a self-proclaimed Fugitive-Agrarian concentrates on the history and mystery of nature. He explores Fugitive-Agrarian concepts of nature, history, science, industry, family and community, paying particular attention to…
In the spirit of St. Thomas Aquinas, the writings of Flannery O'Connor concern for place can best be seen in the immediacies of things and persons. It is in relation…
Have you always wondered how to apply confidence and to employ the process of positivity to overcome challenges? Now you can conquer all the major setbacks in your life and…
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Dry Lightning is a novel by Marion Montgomery that tells the story of a man named Tom who is struggling to come to terms with his past and find his…
Paying special attention to the Romantic poets from Wordworth and Coleridge down to Pound and Eliot, Marion Montgomgery explores the disorientation of image and methaphor for reality. Two species of…
This text is an exploration of Romantic poetry, including that of Eliot, Pound, Keats, Donne, Wordsworth, and Williams, from a Thomistic perspective. The author is particularly interested in the intellect…
In this volume, Marion Montgomery ponders two very different varieties of possum as the starting point for a literary, philosophical, and poetic inquiry into the nature of Southernness: the familiar…
Montgomery considers the growing emphasis upon the self’s becoming the focus of poetry until a shift culminated in the literature of the most autobiographical century in western letters–the twentieth. Dante…
This study is focused on T. S. Eliot’s developing commitment to Christianity. Montgomery shows how Eliot’s intellectual and emotional uneasiness in the early poems is reflected in his technical devices…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
The concern in this essay is for our age as one suffering an intellectual severance between our response to existential reality in which the beauty of a created particular thing…
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…
Presents 26 essays that discuss the importance of place in all serious literature, but especially in southern letters. This book notes differences between southern and northern fiction, and pays tribute…
Joseph D. Caver,Quinton T. Ross
Tells the story of the Lincoln Normal School’s transformation into the legendary Alabama State University, including the school’s move to Montgomery in 1887 and evolution from Normal School to junior…
Jennifer Lane
The formation of the Montgomeryshire County Recreation Association (MCRA) in 1919 was an ambitious initiative. The breadth of the activities that it initiated, and the confidence with which it proposed…
Henry T. Edmondson, III
A guide to the works of Flannery O'Connor, the southern Catholic author so preoccupied with the threat of nihilism. It investigates O'Connor’s deepest motivations through more than just her fiction…
Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor’s Response to Nihilism is a superb guide to the works of Flannery O'Connor; and like O'Connor’s stories themselves, it is captivating, provocative, and…
F Marion Crawford
A Sequel To Primadonna And Fair Margaret.
Linda L Green
These census records reveal unique information about the people and how they lived. Often times, when an ancestor is missed on the regular US Census, they will show up on…
Raymond Siever
The year 1850 brought a new kind of census. Not only was it the first U.S. Census to name all people in a household on the regular census, but also…
