Robert Penn Warren was unique among twentieth-century American writers for having achieved excellence in a broad and assorted range of genres: poems, novels, plays, critical works, historical essays, personal essays, biography, and innovative textbooks. In this collection of essays, critics and poets -- among the finest Warren scholars -- assess Warren's legacy within his various genres and illuminate his centrality to twentieth-century American culture.
Although Warren was best known for his novel All the King's Men, the fact that most of these essays focus on his poetry attests to the...
Robert Penn Warren was unique among twentieth-century American writers for having achieved excellence in a broad and assorted range of genres: poem...
This balanced, critical study reevaluates the place and importance of Civil War fiction in American literary history.
American literary history. The American Civil War is widely recognized as the single most defining event in U.S. history, a time of tragic upheaval that greatly influenced the character of the nation and helped to chart its course for generations afterward. Much of the fiction focusing on the war not only has literary merit but also offers important views into the cultural, political, and socioeconomic conditions and nuances of the time. This collection of essays,...
This balanced, critical study reevaluates the place and importance of Civil War fiction in American literary history.
A gripping and thought-provoking work that is unlike any Civil War novel previously written, Sharpshooter takes us into the mind of one of the war's veterans as he attempts, years after the conflict, to reconstruct his experiences and to find some measure of meaning in them. A child of the divided East Tennessee mountain region, Willis Carr left home at age thirteen to follow his father and brothers on a bridge-burning mission for the Union cause. Imprisoned at Knoxville, he agreed to join the Confederate army to avoid being hanged and became a sharpshooter serving under General Longstreet....
A gripping and thought-provoking work that is unlike any Civil War novel previously written, Sharpshooter takes us into the mind of one of the war's v...
David Madden is one of the South's most notable contemporary writers. His interests are remarkably vast. He has published award-winning fiction, poetry, plays, critical works, and essays on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from history to popular culture. This collection represents Madden's essays on various other southern writers and his own struggle to come to terms with how the works and lives of these writers have influenced his own life and work. By analyzing the charged image of the spider web, as described in chapter four of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, Madden shows that...
David Madden is one of the South's most notable contemporary writers. His interests are remarkably vast. He has published award-winning fiction, poetr...
"Abducted by Circumstance is a thrilling crime story, a dark and complex psychological study, a rich contemplation on contemporary life. It is also a masterful moral drama about the centuries-old conflicts that arise from the juxtaposition of the flesh and spirit." --Allen Wier, author of Tehano "David Madden continues to push the envelope of literary fiction in subtle and profoundly sophisticated ways. Abducted by Circumstance is a quirky, utterly compelling novel in pieces that in its very structure speaks to the work's twenty-first-century theme: how do we find connection in a fragmented...
"Abducted by Circumstance is a thrilling crime story, a dark and complex psychological study, a rich contemplation on contemporary life. It is also a ...
Providing an overview of all of James M. Cain's fiction, including an analysis of the major themes of his entire literary career, the book examines Cain's impact on and importance in 20th-century culture, film in particular.
Providing an overview of all of James M. Cain's fiction, including an analysis of the major themes of his entire literary career, the book examines Ca...
Like Dr. Frankenstein s invented creature, the larger-than-life, flesh-and-blood characters of London Bridge in Plague and Fireare made from pieces of the dead past that are forged in the consciousness of an historian himself a creation of history and of David Madden s literary magic. Struck by the lightning bolt of the co-joined imaginations of Madden and his reader, the fabricated beings rise up and walk on London Bridge, and they have the audacity to speak for themselves in completely convincing and haunting voices. Allen Wier, author of Tehano For more than two thousand years, Old...
Like Dr. Frankenstein s invented creature, the larger-than-life, flesh-and-blood characters of London Bridge in Plague and Fireare made from pieces of...
Though he has authored more than eleven novels including, "Cassandra Singing, The Suicide's Wife, Abducted by Circumstance," and the recent "London Bridge in Plague and Fire," David Madden has been publishing short stories for all six decades of his active career. "The Last Bizarre Tale" consists of works that appeared in journals but that have not appeared together as a collection. Madden used two stories, "The Singer" and "Second Look Presents: the Rape of an Indian Brave," as chapters in his 1980 novel "On the Big Wind." "The Headless Girl's Mother" was first...
Though he has authored more than eleven novels including, "Cassandra Singing, The Suicide's Wife, Abducted by Circumstance," and the recent "Londo...
