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Racial politics and Robert Penn Warren's poetry

Title
Racial politics and Robert Penn Warren's poetry / Anthony Szczesiul.
Author
Szczesiul, Anthony.
Publication
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2002.

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Description
x, 253 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 > Political and social views
  • Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  • Political poetry, American > History and criticism
  • African Americans in literature
  • Race in literature
  • Southern States > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-246) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Robert Penn Warren's political and poetic transformations -- The racialized order of Warren's "Pondy Woods" sequence (1929) -- Rereading "The briar patch" -- The conservative modernist aesthetic of Warren's early poetry, 1923-1943 -- Racial themes and formal transitions in Warren's early fiction -- Confession and complicity in Brother to dragons (1953) -- Segregation : the inner conflict in Robert Penn Warren -- The consolidation of Warren's romantic aesthetic, 1955-1966 -- Warren in transition : Who speaks for the Negro? and A plea in mitigation -- Reinterpreting the personal past : race in Warren's later poetry -- Toward the self as fiction : language, time, and identity in Warren's poetry, 1966-1975 -- Conclusion : Warren at the "inevitable frontier" of postmodernism, 1975-1985.
Call Number
Sc E 03-312
ISBN
0813025850 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002028934
OCLC
50253190
Author
Szczesiul, Anthony.
Title
Racial politics and Robert Penn Warren's poetry / Anthony Szczesiul.
Imprint
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2002.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-246) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 03-312
JFE 03-4253
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