TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meyer,Michael J.
AU  - Ingrasci,Hugh J.
TI  - Robert Penn Warren's All the king's men
T2  - Dialogue
SN  - 9789401207720
AV  - PS3545.A748 Z49 2012
U1  - 813.52 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York, NY
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Warren, Robert Penn,
KW  - All the king's men (Warren, Robert Penn)
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material --; Introduction; Hugh Ingrasci --; The Text of the “Restored” Edition of All The King's Men; Noel Polk --; The Great Disconnect: Jack Burden and History in All The King’s Men; Larry A. Gray --; Jack Burden: Successful Historian in All The King’s Men; James Perkins --; “The Awful Responsibility of Time”: Understanding History in All The King’s Men; Ben Railton --; “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; Andrew M. Hakim --; Twitches and Trigger-fingers: Accidental Homicides and Suicides in Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men; Alex Wulff --; The Inversion of Home in All The King’s Men; Robert McParland --; “Little Jackie Made It Stick, All Right”: The Implicating Narrative of Jack Burden; Bert Emerson --; Theological Reflections on Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men; Mark T. Mitchell --; The Many Faces of God: Layered Imagery of the Deity in Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men; Michael J. Meyer --; 'All The King’s Men,' Spiritual Aesthetics, and the Reader; Robert Koppelman --; Midcentury Jack vs. Millennium Jack: The Ongoing Burden of Identity on Film; Cecilia Donohue --; Abstract of Arguments --; Author Biographies --; Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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 audience as a trustworthy chronicler of the Willie Stark era of Jack’s life. The second major thematic motif these essays explore is Penn Warren’s implicit positing of a spiritual dimension to Jack Burden’s quest for a viable identity to sustain him in his ultimate decision to join humanity and finally live in the history he’s so long lived outside of, as a cynically un-involved observer. The provocative efforts of these twelve scholars, fifty-six years after the publication of All the King’s Men , testifies to the novel’s great philosophical and psychological depths, riches that continue to induce new readers and returning readers to shadow Jack Burden in his quest of the examined life: the quest to fully engage ourselves in becoming ever more human despite our being flawed, ever-plagued by our social shortcomings, as are “all the king’s men.”
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401207720
ER  -