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Robert Penn Warren's All the king's men /
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 Bu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2012.
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| Colección: | Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ;
15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9401207720 9789401207720 |