... University of California, Los Angeles The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren. By JAMES H. JUSTUS. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, Southern Literary Studies, 1981. xviii + 362 pp. $32.50,cloth; $12.95, paper. The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren has no singular...

.... Certain American writers have been unusually fortunate in their critics. Robert Penn Warren is one. Though we can hardly speak as yet of a Warren industry, he has attracted some of our most perceptive critics, from James Justus and Robert B. Heilman to Harold Bloom, David Wyatt, and Calvin Bedient...

...James H. Justus Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 THE USES OF GESTURE IN WARREN’S THE CAVE By JAMES H. JUSTUS In his essay on Nostromo, Robert Penn Warren observes that Conrad was more interested in the kind of experienced...

...Kenneth W. Warren Reference Scholes Robert . 1985 . Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Despite this limitation, WReC’s observations, like the remaining essays, convey why literary work necessarily entails...

... it. This essay hypothesizes that postmodern theories of truth and concomitant transformations in reader sensibilities partly account for the legitimization and now dominance of biofiction. The essay analyzes a 1968 literary debate among Ralph Ellison, William Styron, and Robert Penn Warren, which on the surface...

...Alan Warren Friedman Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 HAMLET THE UNREADY By ALANWARREN FRIEDMAN In scene ii of act V, an at last resigned Hamlet tells a reluctant Hora- tio that they have now arrived at the beginning...

...Joseph Warren Beach Collected and edited by Herbert Davis, William C. DeVane, and R. C. Bald. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1940. Pp. 303. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 Donald Cornzr 329 I doubt that the “Blue...

...Alan Warren Friedman Martin Price. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. xvii + 373 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 2 12 REVIEWS Forms of Life: Character and Moral Imapnation in the Novel...

...Warren J. Wolfe Shelby T. McCloy. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1957. Pp. 274. $6.50. Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 90 Reviews of the outstanding episodes of Dante’s Inferno. We are therefore grateful to the translators...

...Warren D. Smith Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 MORE LIGHT ON MEASURE FOR MEASURE By WARREND. SMITH If any of Shakespeare’s dramas has run the gamut of criticism, it would seem to be Measure for Measure. The theme of the play (espe...

...Warren Stevenson Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 ALBANY AS ARCHETYPE IN KZNG LEAR By WARRENSTEVENSON A. C. Bradley, upon observing of the character of Albany in King Lear that he is “merely sketched...

...Warren L. Chernaik Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 THE HEROIC OCCASIONAL POEM PANEGYRIC AND SATIRE IN THE RESTORATION By WARRENL. CHERNAIK The development of satire during the neoclassical period was to a great...

...Warren Mild Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 JOHNSON AND LAUDER : A REEXAMINATION By WARRENMILD Although Samuel Johnson’s contemporaries almost unanimously assured their world that Johnson could have had no knowledge of the hoax...

...Warren Pendleton Carrier Margaret Gilman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. vii + 264. $3.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Warren Pendleton Carrier 123 Baudetaire the Critic. By MARGARETGILMAN. New York: Colum- bia...

...George L. Lam; Warren H. Smith Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 GEORGE VERTUE’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHAUCERIAN ICONOGRAPHY By GEORGEL. LAMAND WARRENH. SMITH George Vertue’s antiquarian collections,l like those of Thomas Hearne,2...

...Daniel Davies Holy Digital Grail reveals the complexity of what it means to research medieval literature. Rather than prioritize the act of textual interpretation, Warren reroutes attention to everything that creates that scene of reading—to the social and historical forces that enable texts...

... of the Ancient Mariner’’ by Robert Penn Warren, William Emp- son, and Jerome McGann. To judge from the reviewers, Coleridge’s contemporaries found the poem unintelligible. They could not even follow the plot. Unless we also count the marginal glosses Coleridge added to the poem, only three efforts...

...Richard Harter Fogle Austin Warren. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. Pp. vii + 161. $3.00. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 124 Reviews good he could conceive of. “James’s primary interest,” writes Mr. Andreas, “was the experience...

... circumstances of place and time” of Warren as a “border southerner and a transregional intellectual; the values of the country and small town, including the tangled benefits of social cohe- sion and Christian assumptions about the nature of man” (p. xiv). Justus calls this approach “a premise” (p. xiii...

... REVIEWS ticular ones. Justus stresses the “cultural circumstances of place and time” of Warren as a “border southerner and a transregional intellectual; the values of the country and small town, including the tangled benefits of social cohe- sion and Christian assumptions about the nature of man...