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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.