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Where It All Began (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

Where It All Began (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Rpw, Sibelius, And The Dream, Marshall Walker Jan 2008

Rpw, Sibelius, And The Dream, Marshall Walker

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In All the King’s Men Jack Burden says, “I eat a persimmon and the teeth of a tinker in Tibet are put on edge,” but what could link a Finnish composer to a writer, forty years younger, from the American South? “The creations of American literature generally are no doubt more given to the speculative, − less given to the realistic, − than are those of English literature,” says Anthony Trollope in his essay, “The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne.” “On our side of the water we deal more with beef and ale, and less with dreams.” Both Sibelius and Warren …


Recreating Faulkner: Cleanth Brooks’ Use Of Faulkner As New Critical Exemplar, Dana W. Mcmichael Jan 2008

Recreating Faulkner: Cleanth Brooks’ Use Of Faulkner As New Critical Exemplar, Dana W. Mcmichael

Robert Penn Warren Studies

Cleanth Brooks’ emphasis on textual structure helped move Faulkner criticism in new directions. Though early reviews and critical treatments of William Faulkner’s works frequently speculated on his literary intentions, combed his words for various ideologies, or sought a Jamesian realism, Brooks’ earliest studies of Faulkner insisted that his novels and stories be appreciated for their mastery of form. Although Brooks’ later studies have received much of the attention they deserve, his earliest essays on Faulkner have been largely neglected. Cumulatively, Brooks’ many articles and book-length studies of Faulkner’s fiction seek to repackage him as a Modernist writer whose works are …


An “Unreligious” Affair: (Re)Reading The American Civil War In Foote’S Shiloh And Warren’S Wilderness, Kyle Crews Jan 2008

An “Unreligious” Affair: (Re)Reading The American Civil War In Foote’S Shiloh And Warren’S Wilderness, Kyle Crews

Robert Penn Warren Studies

A comparative analysis of Robert Penn Warren’s Wilderness and Shelby Foote’s Shiloh reveals a similar historiography that both writers apply to the American Civil War. From a narratological standpoint, the novels are very different; however, the underlying theme is the same: the Civil War is an “unreligious” episode in an often oversimplified period in American history.


About The Center (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

About The Center (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Circle (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

About The Circle (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Birthplace (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

About The Birthplace (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Dedication Page (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

Dedication Page (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Birthplace (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

About The Birthplace (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Dedication Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

Dedication Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Title Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

Title Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Contents (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

Contents (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Cass Mastern, Josiah Royce, And The Envelope Of Responsibility, Joseph Wensink Jan 2007

Cass Mastern, Josiah Royce, And The Envelope Of Responsibility, Joseph Wensink

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In Warren’s All the King’s Men, Jack’s ultimate reconciliation does not come, as most readers see it, from learning to accept full responsibility for his actions where he formerly had none, but rather from his ability to define for himself, through his historical researches and creation of iconic “images,” a clear picture of the boundaries of his responsibility—its burdens as well as its limits. This envelope of responsibility is for Warren thoroughly historical—and envelope whose contours change through time, crucially dependent upon the narration of past events in the present. Jack’s “brass-bound idealism” is, despite his sarcasm, a quite sophisticated …


Robert Penn Warren In The 21st Century: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, James A. Grimshaw Jr. Jan 2007

Robert Penn Warren In The 21st Century: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, James A. Grimshaw Jr.

Robert Penn Warren Studies

Seven years into the 21st century, an informal look at the state of Warren studies reveals both reason for hope and for deep concern.


About The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

About The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Circle (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

About The Circle (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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The Editing Of Jack Burden, Nathan Snow Jan 2007

The Editing Of Jack Burden, Nathan Snow

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In comparing Jack Burden as narrator in the 1946 version of All the King’s Men to Jack Burden as narrator in Noel Polk’s 2001 Restored Edition of the novel, the originally published Jack Burden emerges as the better narrator, and the 1946 version is the better for it. Warren’s original editor, Lambert Davis, deserves some of the credit for this improvement.


Narrator Myopia In “Goodwood Comes Back”, Bill Mccarron, Paul Knoke Jan 2007

Narrator Myopia In “Goodwood Comes Back”, Bill Mccarron, Paul Knoke

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In “Goodwood Comes Back,” Warren creates an emotionally myopic narrator whose inability to see Goodwood for who he really is ironically points to the fact that, however short-lived, Goodwood’s personal comeback has been as triumphant as his foray into baseball. The contrast between Goodwood’s intimate knowledge of baseball and the narrator’s ignorance of the game sets the narrator up as a foil to Goodwood. His limitations only serve to highlight Goodwood’s accomplishments.


Editor’S Foreword (Volume 7), Mark D. Miller Jan 2007

Editor’S Foreword (Volume 7), Mark D. Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Observations On Robert Penn Warren’S “The Day Dr. Knox Did It”, James A. Perkins Jan 2007

Observations On Robert Penn Warren’S “The Day Dr. Knox Did It”, James A. Perkins

Robert Penn Warren Studies

“The Day Dr. Knox Did It” may be read as Warren’s artistic response to the suicide of Ernest Hemingway. The poem repeats an important motif from Warren’s second, unpublished and untitled novel, written in the 1930’s. It also contains some interesting correspondences—and equally important contrasts—to the work of Ernest Hemingway, especially the short story “Indian Camp.”


“The Deepest And Widest Metaphor For Life” Re-Visions Of Christian Faith In Robert Penn Warren’S Later Poetry, Nicole Camastra Jan 2007

“The Deepest And Widest Metaphor For Life” Re-Visions Of Christian Faith In Robert Penn Warren’S Later Poetry, Nicole Camastra

Robert Penn Warren Studies

While it would be foolish to assert that Warren was a committed Christian and unequivocal believer, a kind of tempered faith does exist in some of Warren’s poems from Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978. Manuscript revisions of “Amazing Grace in the Back Country” and “Heart of the Backlog” reveal Warren’s struggle to find faith, not his conviction of living in it. However, “Heart of Autumn,” the final poem in the volume, points to the conscious act of surrendering to the depth of theistic conflict in its preceding counterparts.


Raised In The Briar Patch: Misreading Warren’S Essay On Race, Leverett Butts Jan 2007

Raised In The Briar Patch: Misreading Warren’S Essay On Race, Leverett Butts

Robert Penn Warren Studies

As human beings, we are prone to all sorts of misreadings: of literary works, of others, of ourselves. This scholarly and personal visit to “The Briar Patch” reveals a younger Warren subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, advocating integration in a world that in the 1920’s was not (and some might say still isn’t) ready to accept full equality.


Selected Bibliography: Robert Penn Warren 2005-2007, Robin L. Condon Jan 2007

Selected Bibliography: Robert Penn Warren 2005-2007, Robin L. Condon

Robert Penn Warren Studies

A listing of two years’ worth of “The Good.”


Notes On Contributors (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

Notes On Contributors (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Where It All Began (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2006

Where It All Began (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Editor’S Foreword (Volume 6), Mark D. Miller Jan 2006

Editor’S Foreword (Volume 6), Mark D. Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Birthplace (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2006

About The Birthplace (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Title Page (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2006

Title Page (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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