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245 0 0 _aRobert Penn Warren's All the king's men /
_cedited by Michael J. Meyer and Hugh J. Ingrasci.
264 1 _aAmsterdam ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bRodopi,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aDialogue ;
_v15
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material --
_tIntroduction /
_rHugh Ingrasci --
_tThe Text of the “Restored” Edition of All The King's Men /
_rNoel Polk --
_tThe Great Disconnect: Jack Burden and History in All The King’s Men /
_rLarry A. Gray --
_tJack Burden: Successful Historian in All The King’s Men /
_rJames Perkins --
_t“The Awful Responsibility of Time”: Understanding History in All The King’s Men /
_rBen Railton --
_t“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 /
_rAndrew M. Hakim --
_tTwitches and Trigger-fingers: Accidental Homicides and Suicides in Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men /
_rAlex Wulff --
_tThe Inversion of Home in All The King’s Men /
_rRobert McParland --
_t“Little Jackie Made It Stick, All Right”: The Implicating Narrative of Jack Burden /
_rBert Emerson --
_tTheological Reflections on Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men /
_rMark T. Mitchell --
_tThe Many Faces of God: Layered Imagery of the Deity in Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men /
_rMichael J. Meyer --
_t'All The King’s Men,' Spiritual Aesthetics, and the Reader /
_rRobert Koppelman --
_tMidcentury Jack vs. Millennium Jack: The Ongoing Burden of Identity on Film /
_rCecilia Donohue --
_tAbstract of Arguments --
_tAuthor Biographies --
_tIndex.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aThe 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.”
600 1 0 _aWarren, Robert Penn,
_d1905-1989.
_tAll the king's men.
630 0 7 _aAll the king's men (Warren, Robert Penn)
_2fast
700 1 _aMeyer, Michael J.
700 1 _aIngrasci, Hugh J.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9042034963
_z9789042034969
830 0 _aDialogue
_v15.
830 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004357907.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401207720
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