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Contents (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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The Freedom Of Flexibility: Lessons From The Child Characters In Flannery O'Connor, Kathryn Matheny

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Flannery O'Connor had a penchant for repetition, often revisiting the same character types, plot devices, and overriding ideas in two or more stories. This repetition always goes hand in hand with reinterpretation. Even when the characters and plots seem suspiciously similar, the differences signal both O'Connor's fascination with her subject and her persistent attempts to understand it. This thesis will explore O'Connor's revisions of stories in which child characters play an integral part. The later story in the three pairs I will examine gives a clearer picture of what O'Connor believed were the freedoms of childhood. O'Connor's adults rarely arouse …

The Underground House: A Body Memoir, Aubrey Videtto

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The creative non-fiction genre, in particular memoir and travel writing, is in a state of constant evolution. Furthermore, as we progress further into postmodern times, writing (both fiction and non-fiction, as well as poetry and drama) becomes more and more confessional and fragmented. These two facts make it difficult to classify the following memoir. It is both travel narrative and memoir on the body, but perhaps none of the traditional writers in either of these camps would claim my piece. Nevertheless, I call it a body memoir, and under essay it should be filed. In three sections (plus an introduction …

Melting Beeswax Bodies: The Queen Bee, The Hive, And Identity In Women's Writing, Leigh Johnson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The works examined are poetry by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Audre Lorede, novels by Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, and a drama by Elizabeth Bussey Fentress, The Honey Harvest. In looking at how the women writers construct identity using bee imagery, I propose that they actually subvert the societal devaluation of women. The beeswax bodies represent gendered constructions of how women should behave. The characters "melt" these bodies by refusing to fit the mold and by redesigning the mold to fit themselves.

Buried Alive: Hard Science Fiction Since The Golden Age, Bonny Mcdonald

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A substantial body of science fiction authors, critics and fans appreciate the literary attention the New Wave of the '60s and '70s brought to the genre of science fiction, but regret the seemingly lasting move away from the hard science classics of the '50s and before. They argue that "the hard stuff' is at the very heart of sf and that its future—still on the path set by the New Wave—is ostensibly a dead end. Many important critics along with hundreds of sf fan websites display this fatalistic concern, asking over and over "Is hard science fiction dead?" The answer …

Baptism, Mark Melloan

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

One of my favorite movie characters said he'd worn lots of shoes, meaning he'd been a great many places and done a great many things. Well, I've never been to war or run across America or founded a shrimp company or shook the President's hand or returned kickoffs for the University of Alabama. But I did grow up in a church, come of age, and stay there, which is perhaps as interesting. I am now a husband, worship leader, singer-songwriter, and college writing instructor, struggling to capture fragments of who I was before I was any of these things, and …

Ua68/6/1 Cherry Hall Bulletin, Wku English

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Newsletter created by the English Department. This issue highlights the Robert Penn Warren Centennial, Kentucky Writers Conference and Book Fest, faculty achievements and student activities.

Questions Of Swimming, 1935, Peter Davison

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In an eloquent meditative lyric, one of our leading poets pays tribute to a friend and mentor he knew from childhood.

Memories Of Warren, Charles East

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A distinguished editor and Southern man-of-letters recalls his early discovery of Robert Penn Warren, his first meeting with the poet-novelist, and his later attempts to persuade Warren to publish his verse play Proud Flesh, forerunner of the prize-winning novel All the King’s Men.

A Conversation With Lewis P. Simpson, William Bedford Clark, James A. Grimshaw Jr.

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The co-editors of this journal interview Professor Simpson on a wide range of issues pertaining toWarren, his place in the American canon, and the present state of literature in the academy and the culture at large.

Places: A Memoir, Rosanna Warren

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The daughter of Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark recalls a series of moving images and moments and, as a noted poet in her own right, offers a unique perspective on her father’s verse.

Divorcing Robert Penn Warren From The South, Paul Murphy

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The author considersWarren’s place in American intellectual history, which is at present problematic. He argues thatWarrenmust be seen as more than a “Southerner.” Though he dealt with Southern materials and saw himself as an uprooted exile and wanderer,Warrenemerged from a modernist ethos and went on to write in an existentialist idiom. His career was played out on a world stage.

Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, And The Southern Literary Tradition, Joseph Blotner

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The illustrious biographer of Faulkner and Warren provides an overview of the role the Southern tradition in American letters played in the making of Warren and Brooks, both of whom he knew as friends as well as subjects of professional interest.

Purity, Panic, And Pasiphaë In Brother To Dragons, John Burt

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Brother to Dragons is a poem that turns chiefly upon guilt over racism and slavery, but many of its most intense passages concern sexual guilt. The poem returns obsessively to the subject of sex because sex provides it with a way of thinking about how the highest and lowest aspect of human nature are inextricably bound together in it. The inextricable duality of love is a model for a similar inextricable duality the poem discusses in political idealism. The way the desire for purity shades into sadism is a model for the ways efforts to purify the political world also …

The Robert Penn Warren Collection At Emory University: A Personal Account, Richard Schuchard

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The Special Collections division of the Emory library is home to a vast array of materials of remarkable value to the study of Robert Penn Warren, and this account provides a useful running guide to those extensive holdings.

A Son Remembers, Gabriel Warren

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The Warrens’ son, a sculptor with a keen eye for natural forms, recalls the important role of place in his family’s life and shares a sequence of evocative photos.

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R. P. Blackmur And Randall Jarrell On Literary Magazines: An Exchange, Stephen Burt

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Letters between Warren’s acquaintance Blackmur and his close friend and onetime protégé Jarrell on the state of American literary magazines enrich our sense of the literary milieu in which the three worked.

Editors' Forward (Volume 5), William Bedford Clark, James A. Grimshaw

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Title Page (Volume 5), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Contents (Volume 5), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Circle (Volume 5), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Center (Volume 5), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Understanding Whittier; Or, Warren In The Aftermath Of Modernism, Mark Royden Winchell

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Although the textbooks he edited with Cleanth Brooks virtually defined the New Criticism,Warren’s critical essays moved beyond close reading and frequently challenged the standards of high modernism when it came to assessing literary excellence. This was particularly true during the last three decades of his life, when his poetry also reflected a turn from strict modernism. His discovery ofWhittier’s poetry in the 1970s revealed new depth and unsuspected complexity in the work of that “fireside sentimentalist” and demonstrates how farWarrenwas prepared to go in fashioning a “newer” criticism.

About The Birthplace (Volume 5), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Robert Penn Warren And The South, Lewis P. Simpson

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One of the most acclaimed students of the Southern mind, a critic and editor who came to know Warren well and earned his deep respect, revisits the importance of region and identity in the author’s life and work.

Warren’S Willie Talos: Reflections On The Name, Harold L. Weatherby

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In choosing Willie Talos as the original name for his strongman governor in All the King’s Men,Warrenwas explicitly drawing upon Edmund Spenser, but his allusion to the Faerie Queene remains puzzling. Spenser’s “robotic” character would seem to have more in common with a dehumanized figure in the novel like Sugar Boy, who is often presented in mechanistic imagery.Warren’s ultimate decision to change Willie’s name from Talos to Stark seems a wise one.