Robert Penn Warren's All the king's men / / edited by Michael J. Meyer and Hugh J. Ingrasci.

• Superior document: Dialogue ; 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Meyer, Michael J., 1943-; Ingrasci, Hugh J.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Dialogue 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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.