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About The Birthplace (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
About The Birthplace (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
Dedication Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Dedication Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
Title Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Title Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
Contents (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Contents (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
Cass Mastern, Josiah Royce, And The Envelope Of Responsibility, Joseph Wensink
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.
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
About The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
About The Circle (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
About The Circle (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
The Editing Of Jack Burden, Nathan Snow
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
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
Editor’S Foreword (Volume 7), Mark D. Miller
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Student Creative Writing
The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.
Observations On Robert Penn Warren’S “The Day Dr. Knox Did It”, James A. Perkins
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
“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
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
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
Notes On Contributors (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
A Spectre Is Haunting Samuel Clemens: A Marxist Critique Of Wealth As Resolution In Mark Twain's Novels, Jeff Carr
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The distribution of wealth occurs frequently in Mark Twain's novels, especially at the resolution. Indeed, Twain uses wealth as resolution in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. The repeated use of this formula in the author's approach to novel writing indicates the tremendous influence that capitalism had in shaping his worldview. In his early works, Twain appears to endorse capitalism in his use of wealth as resolution. Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and Huckleberry Finn each conclude with the distribution of capital as a reward to …
Courtship, Loe, And Marriage In Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery Of Courtly Love, Leigh Copas
Courtship, Loe, And Marriage In Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery Of Courtly Love, Leigh Copas
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Othello is the forgery of a comedic play turned tragedy, for the play begins where the ordinary comedy would end. While many critics prefer to discuss the racial and exotic aspects of William Shakespeare's tragedy, there are several critics who focus on the role of love and the marital relationships that are also important in terms of interpreting the actions of key characters. Carol Thomas Neely, Maurice Charney, and several other literary critics have focused primarily on the role of marriage and love in Othello. The topic of marriage is generally discussed in terms of the wooing scene (Act 1, …
The Green World Of Dystopian Fiction, Martin Hensley
The Green World Of Dystopian Fiction, Martin Hensley
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Northrop Frye was the first theorist to develop the green world archetype; Frye used the term to refer to a recurring motif in Shakespearean comedy. In several of Shakespeare's comedies, the protagonists leave the civilized world and venture into the green world, or nature, to escape from the irrational law of society, which is the case in such comedies as As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Elements of the green world can also be found in Shakespearean tragedy, where the natural retreat serves as a temporary escape for the protagonists. Such a green world exists in three …
Shakespeare's Use Of The New Testament: Biblical Intertexuality In As You Like It And Romeo And Juliet, Joseph Hurtgen
Shakespeare's Use Of The New Testament: Biblical Intertexuality In As You Like It And Romeo And Juliet, Joseph Hurtgen
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis examines structure in Shakespeare to show how his plays Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It intertextually relate to the Bible in such a way that allows them to elicit order. Shakespeare's plays contain dramatic structure, imagery, themes, and character relationships influenced by the New Testament. In order to understand how Christian elements find their way into texts, the first chapter demonstrates the function of intertextuality, how plots and words evoke others, and how Shakespeare frequently borrows from many sources. Biblical sources, as well as many others, are ubiquitous in Shakespeare. The first chapter then examines Northrop …
Ua32/4/1 Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp, Wku Gender & Women's Studies
Ua32/4/1 Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp, Wku Gender & Women's Studies
WKU Administration Documents
Booklet reviewing events at Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp.
The Magic Lotus Lantern And Other Tales From The Han Chinese, Haiwang Yuan
The Magic Lotus Lantern And Other Tales From The Han Chinese, Haiwang Yuan
DLPS Faculty Publications
This chapter is the first of the three parts of the book, The Magic Lotus Lantern and Other Tales from the Han Chinese. This chapter introduces many aspects of China that may intrigue American readers. It provides some background knowledge of the Chinese culture so that readers can have a better understanding of the tales retold in the book. The second part includes crafts, games, and recipes; and the third part, the tales.
Focusing specifically on the stories of the Han Chinese (the largest ethnic group in China, numbering over a billion people), the book presents more than 50 tales, …
Oedipus' Wake: The (Neo-)Masculinization Of The Self In Late Twentieth-Century American Women's Memoir, Thomas Johnson
Oedipus' Wake: The (Neo-)Masculinization Of The Self In Late Twentieth-Century American Women's Memoir, Thomas Johnson
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Without pretensions to exhaustiveness, this study briefly examines the mid- to late-twentieth-century flowering of western theory and criticism built around autobiographical writing and follows the feminist branch(es) of that theory and criticism through a reading of the following four memoirs: Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, All the Lost Girls by Patricia Foster, Lying by Lauren Slater, and Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel. Using both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory as they relate to literature, I argue that the selves these four women write in their memoirs are not selves built around the model historically set for women by …
The Gospel Of Cosmopolitanism: Conflict Resolution In Barbara Kingsolver's Fiction, Catherine Altmaier
The Gospel Of Cosmopolitanism: Conflict Resolution In Barbara Kingsolver's Fiction, Catherine Altmaier
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Despite Barbara Kingsolver's ability to create unique characters and storylines, two factors remain constant throughout each of her novels: strong female protagonists and conflict resolution. Though conflict exists in almost all fiction, the way that Kingsolver's characters deal with their situations often speaks louder than any other aspect of her writing. Moreover, though her characters often vary wildly from story to story, their methods of conflict resolution seem to undoubtedly connect them. Through her continuing desire to emphasize "the question of individualism and communal identity," {Reading Group Guides) Kingsolver often promotes the ideas of cosmopolitanism, which have recently been articulated …
Tempering Steel: Reapproaching The Mythos Of Superman, Corey Alderdice
Tempering Steel: Reapproaching The Mythos Of Superman, Corey Alderdice
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This study seeks to answer a question posed in Superman #156 and frequently throughout the history of the DC Comics Universe: Must there be a Superman? In answering this question, this study seeks to seam together over sixty years of Superman to better understand the mythology associated with these narratives as well as their impact on American culture. In an analysis of Mark Waid's Superman: Birthright (2003), the basic forms of the origin narrative are addressed as well as how Waid reconstructs the mythos for the twenty-first century. The second chapter addresses deconstructive narratives and the issue of shifting the …
Influence And Its Opposite: Presence And Absence In The Work Of Harold Bloom, Joshua Henderson
Influence And Its Opposite: Presence And Absence In The Work Of Harold Bloom, Joshua Henderson
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In the years since he formulated and expanded on it in The Anxiety of Influence (1973), A Map of Misreading (1975), and Kaballah and Criticism (1975), Harold Bloom's theory of the "anxiety of influence" has engendered more ambivalence than serious investigation into his theory and its influences. In part, the ambivalence is due to Bloom's persona, which irritates the academic "left" and "right" alike. Surprisingly, it is not Bloom's defense of canonicity against post-structural Marxism, feminism, and New Historical criticism that generates the most resistance; instead, Bloom's dissenters more often come from the ranks of conservative traditionalists who might be …
Masculinity And The Postmodern In American Psycho And Fight Club, Sean Mccray
Masculinity And The Postmodern In American Psycho And Fight Club, Sean Mccray
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Initially, this paper traces masculinity in America from the nineteenth century and up through the mid twentieth century in order to define traditional masculinity and identify some of its characteristics. Traditional masculinity, typically demonstrated though aggressive and violent behavior, is currently undergoing cultural and social revisions due to various contemporary ideas. In analyzing American Psycho and Fight Club, two controversial novels written in the past twenty years, the paper makes clear that the protagonists acutely feel the tension that exists between historical perceptions of masculinity and current ideas of what men should be. They react to that tension by exhibiting …
Self-Discovery Journals In The College Composition Classroom, Heather Mcallister
Self-Discovery Journals In The College Composition Classroom, Heather Mcallister
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
What is it that makes writing so enjoyable to some people, and such a troublesome task to others? What, if anything, can teachers of composition do to promote an enthusiasm for writing? As I have found examination of my past experiences a key to answering these questions, I am persuaded that the key to enthusiastic writing lies in the opportunities students have to explore themselves as individuals within their writing. As Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus states above, we write well when we know the truth about that which we are writing. Providing students the occasion to write about themselves will …