Montesi, Albert J.

Dr. Montesi is professor emeritus from St. Louis University. He has also taught at Penn State, the Citadel, Wesleyan in Connecticut, SUNY at Buffalo, and the University of the Ruhr in Bochum, Germany. In addition, to fiction, poetry, and children's books, he has written three books of criticism, the latest of which is being considered for publication by the University of Kentucky press. Dr. Weeks received his PhD from Saint Louis University. He is currently Professor and Graduate Faculty Member at The University of Great Falls, Great Falls, Montana.

Historical Survey of the Southern Review 1935-1942. Radical Conservatism

1999 0-7734-8036-6
The Southern Review provided a vital examination of the cultural life of the period of the 1930's and 40s in American literary and cultural thought. In its pages appeared the early work of such writers as Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Mary McCarthy, and other southern luminaries. It also served as a platform for the political, cultural, and social history of the time. Under the editorship of Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, Jr., it became the center of the New Criticism and the various ideological conflicts associated with that movement. This study examines the unique place the journal held in shaping American literary thought. It examines original correspondence and other archival sources from Yale and Vanderbilt that included the letters of Warren and Brooks to the contributors.