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Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature

Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature

Millichap, Joseph R.

Hardcover

Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1621905926
ISBN13: 9781621905929
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Mar 29 2021
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Toward the end of his career, Robert Penn Warren wrote, It may be said that our lives are our own supreme fiction. Although lauded for his writing in multiple genres, Warren never wrote an autobiography. Instead, he created his own shadowy autobiography in his poetry and prose, as well as his fiction and nonfiction. As one of the most thoughtful scholars on Robert Penn Warren and the literature of the South, Joseph Millichap builds on the accepted idea that Warren's poetry and fiction became more autobiographical in his later years by demonstrating that that same progression is replicated in Warren's literary criticism. This meticulously researched study reexamines in particular Warren's later nonfiction in which autobiographical concerns come into play--that is, in those fraught with psychological crisis such as Democracy and Poetry.

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