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Warren in the Spider's Web

Warren in the Spider's Web Warren in the Spider’s Web by Lucy Ferriss The King fi sh in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel. By Keith Perry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2004. xii + 243 pp. $39.95 cloth. Robert Penn Warren’s Circus Aesthetic and the Southern Renaissance. By Patricia L. Bradley. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2004. xxv + 163 pp. $24.95 cloth. The Cass Mastern Material: The Core of Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. By James A. Perkins. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2005. x + 197 pp. $29.95 cloth. Since his death in 1987, Robert Penn Warren has suff ered the peculiar fate of American writers who fi t uneasily, if at all, into the schools we concoct to house our national genius. These iconoclasts (oth- ers who come to mind are John Dos Passos, who never quite fi lls the mold of a naturalist or a modernist, and James Merrill, whose formal labyrinths outdid new formalism before it had a chance to be new) fi nd their reputations torn between hagiography and desecration. Fortu- nately, a few of Warren’s literary works have survived this tug of war, and we can enter the next phase of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Warren in the Spider's Web

The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 39 (2) – Jul 23, 2007

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2007 the Southern Literary Journal and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of English.
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1534-1461

Abstract

Warren in the Spider’s Web by Lucy Ferriss The King fi sh in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel. By Keith Perry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2004. xii + 243 pp. $39.95 cloth. Robert Penn Warren’s Circus Aesthetic and the Southern Renaissance. By Patricia L. Bradley. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2004. xxv + 163 pp. $24.95 cloth. The Cass Mastern Material: The Core of Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. By James A. Perkins. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2005. x + 197 pp. $29.95 cloth. Since his death in 1987, Robert Penn Warren has suff ered the peculiar fate of American writers who fi t uneasily, if at all, into the schools we concoct to house our national genius. These iconoclasts (oth- ers who come to mind are John Dos Passos, who never quite fi lls the mold of a naturalist or a modernist, and James Merrill, whose formal labyrinths outdid new formalism before it had a chance to be new) fi nd their reputations torn between hagiography and desecration. Fortu- nately, a few of Warren’s literary works have survived this tug of war, and we can enter the next phase of

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Published: Jul 23, 2007

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