Thomas Wolfe's "Web of Earth" and Modernist Orality.

Thomas Wolfe's "The Web of Earth" is an experimental novella that provides particular insight into modernism's oral/textual dynamic. In "The Web of Earth" Wolfe employs the rhythmic talk of oral poets who relied on regular cadences and parataxis to aid their memory and to convey their thoughts. Ulti...

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Published in:	South Carolina Review Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 97 - 104
Main Author:	Holliday, Shawn
Format:	Essay
Published:	Clemson University Press Spring2004
Subjects:	Essays Web of Earth, The (Book) Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 Folk poetry Poetry (Literary form) Folk literature Fiction 21st century (Literary period)
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