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“Reckoning” With America’S Past: Robert Penn Warren’S Later Poetry, Joan Romano Shifflett
“Reckoning” With America’S Past: Robert Penn Warren’S Later Poetry, Joan Romano Shifflett
Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren’s later poetry, specifically Rumor Verified and Altitudes and Extensions, deserves closer critical attention to the function served by the American past. Whether it is facing the bloody reality of westward expansion or acknowledging the alienation and dehumanization that results from the Industrial Revolution, Warren’s poems suggest a method of self-reflection that yields a fuller sense of American identity and, consequently, an awareness and knowledge of how to live in this modern world. A close study of the poetic techniques in “Going West” serves as a model for how Warren uses historical backdrops to employ his underlying philosophy …
Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, And The Southern Literary Tradition, Joseph Blotner
Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, And The Southern Literary Tradition, Joseph Blotner
Robert Penn Warren Studies
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.
“An Exciting Spiral”: Robert Penn Warren On Race And Community, Steven D. Ealy
“An Exciting Spiral”: Robert Penn Warren On Race And Community, Steven D. Ealy
Robert Penn Warren Studies
Warren's contribution to I'll Take My Stand, "The Briar Patch," has been the subject of controversy from its beginning when Donald Davidson tried to exclude it from the collection on the grounds that it was too progressive. Later in life, Warren distanced himself from it by characterizing it as a defense of segregation. However, a closer reading of "The Briar Patch" reveals that Warren set such a high standard for "separate but equal" that he ultimately undermines that doctrine and prepares the way for his re-examination in Segregation and Who Speaks for the Negro?
Robert Penn Warren And James Farmer: Notes On The Creation Of New Journalism, James A. Perkins
Robert Penn Warren And James Farmer: Notes On The Creation Of New Journalism, James A. Perkins
Robert Penn Warren Studies
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