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Shelby Foote and the art of history : two gates to the city by Panabaker, James, 1957- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Ken Burns, creator of the television documentary The Civil War, has called Shelby Foote a 'national treasure.' Foote, whose appearances on the program helped solidify its phenomenal success, earned a reputation among the general public as one of the nationâs leading Civil War historians. His three-volume history of the Civil War is considered by some to be among the most engaging treatments of the conflict to date-Walker Percy called it 'an American Illiad'-and his novels, which straddle the line between fiction and history, have drawn both accolades and controversy.</p><p>Despite such widespread recognition of Footeâs work, reception by some in the scholarly community has been lukewarm; historians dismiss his lively narratives as literary, while literary critics tend to view his exhaustively researched works as historical. In Shelby Foote and the Art of History: Two Gates to the City, James Panabaker argues that Foote is one of a rare breed of artists, capable of combining the tools and sensibilities of a writer of modernist fiction with the discipline of a historian. As a result, the author argues, Foote is able to view his native South and its history in ways unavailable
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Panabaker, James, 1957-
- Publisher
- The University of Tennessee Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781572333185
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14