| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Dialogue ; 15 |
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Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 15.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; The Text of the "Restored" Edition of All The King's Men; The Great Disconnect: Jack Burden and History in All The King's Men; Jack Burden: Successful Historian in All The King's Men; "The Awful Responsibility of Time": Understanding History in All The King's Men; "The Theory of Historical Costs": Jack Burden, History, and the (Mis)Representation of the Past in Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men; Twitches and Trigger-fingers: Accidental Homicides and Suicides in Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men |
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The Inversion of Home in All The King's Men"Little Jackie Made It Stick, All Right": The Implicating Narrative of Jack Burden; Theological Reflections on Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men; The Many Faces of God: Layered Imagery of the Deity in Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men; 'All The King's Men', Spiritual Aesthetics, and the Reader; Midcentury Jack vs. Millennium Jack: The Ongoing Burden of Identity on Film; Abstract of Arguments; Author Biographies; Index |
| Summary |
The twelve essayists in this critical collection examine anew two fundamental concerns of Penn Warren's landmark work, which has as valid a claim to being "The Great American Novel" as any in the literary canon. The first challenging conundrum these critics examine is narrator Jack Burden's adequacy as a historiographer and the impact of his reliability upon his alter-ego-persona-narrative: does Jack succeed in becoming an able historian of his family and of Willie Stark's political career, or does he become self-delusive and resort to a "selectively culled" history to justify himself to his a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. All the king's men.
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| SUBJECT |
All the king's men (Warren, Robert Penn) fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meyer, Michael J
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Ingrasci, Hugh J
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| ISBN |
9401207720 |
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9789401207720 |
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