Title: Robert Penn Warren's modernist spirituality /
Authors: Koppelman, Robert S. 1959-
Publisher: University of Missouri Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Warren, Robert Penn, Religion.; Christianity and literature Southern States.; Modernism (Literature) Southern States.; Spirituality in literature
Abstract: As a man who disclaimed any kind of religious orthodoxy, Robert Penn Warren nonetheless found in Christianity "the deepest and widest metaphor for life." The significance he drew from it was one he expressed strictly in humanistic and natural terms: spiritual renewal and redemption were possible through engagement with literature and participation in the world. In Robert Penn Warren's Modernist Spirituality, Robert Koppelman explores the spiritual or religious dimension to Warren's work in light of his admitted agnosticism.
Contents: 1. Spirituality, Participation, and Redemption -- 2. All the King's Men: The Experience, Language, and Concentric Circles of Conversion -- 3. Promises: A Legacy of Evolving Perspectives -- 4. The Late Poetry: Provisional Resolutions to the Continuing Dialectic -- 5. Now And Then: A Case Study -- 6. A Place to Come To: "Terra" Abiding Forever as the Hero.