Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781621905929
Subjects: Books and reading; American literature, history and criticism
Description: "Drawing principally on the work of critic James Olney, Joseph R. Millichap shows how Robert Penn Warren's critical engagement with major American authors-Faulkner, Ransom, Melville, Whittier, Dreiser, and Hawthorne-generated both insightful criticism as well as a working out of Warren's own autobiography under the shadowy influence of these leading writers. While Warren himself occasionally acknowledged the autobiographical nature of creative work-especially in his poetry-Millichap discovers similar dynamics at work when Warren takes up influential writers in his criticism"--