Robert Penn Warren : Critical Perspectives.
Title:
Robert Penn Warren : Critical Perspectives.
Author:
Nakadate, Neil.
ISBN:
9780813157023
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (340 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Works of Robert Penn Warren, 1929-1980 -- THE CRITICAL RECORD: FICTION -- Robert Penn Warren: The Conservative Quest for Identity -- Night Rider and the Issue of Naturalism: The 'Nightmare' of Our Age -- All the King's Men: The Matrix of Experience -- The Narrator's Mind as Symbol: An Analysis of All the King's Men -- Willie Stark and Huey Long: Atmosphere, Myth, or Suggestion? -- The Case of the Vanishing Narratee: An Inquiry into All the King's Men -- Tangled Web -- The Mariner and Robert Penn Warren -- The Historical Novelist and the Existential Peril: Band of Angels -- The Deep, Twisting Strain of Life: The Novels of Robert Penn Warren -- The Uses of Gesture in The Cave -- Identity, Dream, and Exploration: Warren's Later Fiction -- THE CRITICAL RECORD: POETRY -- Irony and Orthodoxy: Robert Penn Warren -- The Inklings of "Original Sin" -- The Way Brother to Dragons Was Written -- Psychology and Theme in Brother to Dragons -- The Function of Colloquy in Brother to Dragons -- Warren's Osmosis -- The Stiff Smile of Mr. Warren -- Robert Penn Warren's Promised Land -- The Art to Transfigure -- Sacramental Vision -- A Selected Checklist of Criticism on Robert Penn Warren.
Abstract:
Long recognized as one of America's foremost men of letters, Robert Penn Warren continues to dazzle us with his many-sided genius. In the haunting images of his poetry, the narrative power of his fiction, the revealing insights of his essays, we find literary achievement of the highest order. Warren's writing has merited the close attention of literary critics. In this book Neil Nakadate brings together the most important critical essays, including a new essay written for this volume, to give a comprehensive view of the range of Warren's work. A list of Warren's published works, 1929-1980, and a useful checklist of critical works on Warren's writing supplement this rich and balanced collection of essays. Contributors: A.L. Clements, Chester E. Eisinger, Norton R. Girault, Robert B. Heilman, H.P. Heseltine, James H. Justus, Richard Law, Frederick P.W. McDowell, Neil Nakadate, Ladell Payne, M. Bernetta Quinn, John Crowe Ransom, Victor Strandberg, Walter Sullivan, William Tjenos, Simone Vauthier, and Robert Penn Warren.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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