Volume 34, Number 8 · May 7, 1987
'Kipper of de Vineyards'
By Monroe K. Spears
The Language of the American South
by Cleanth Brooks
The University of Georgia Press, 58 pp., $9.95
That Cleanth Brooks, after a long and distinguished career as a literary critic, should now produce a book about language may surprise some readers. But it must be remembered that language was one of his strong early interests: among his first publications were The Relation of the Alabama-Georgia Dialect to the Provincial Dialects of Great Britain (1935) and 'The English Language of the South' (1937, often reprinted). Besides, he is concerned here not with language for its own sake, but with its larger significances and particularly its relation to literature.
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