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Robert Penn Warren's short fiction: His theory, his stories, and his critics

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1990
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Robert Penn Warren is an accomplished poet, novelist, teacher, and critic. Critics of his work consider the short story to be the weakest genre in his canon; however, an examination of each of the fourteen stories in The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories with a combination reader-response, historical, and analytical reading proves that some of the stories are very good. A comparison of these stories with "Technical Problems and Principles in the Composition of Fiction--A Summary," the appendix of Understanding Fiction, an outstanding textbook co-authored by Warren, emphasizes their quality. The stories should not be grouped under the label "Stories of Robert Penn Warren," but rather they should be read, enjoyed, and judged as individual works of art.
Title: Robert Penn Warren's short fiction: His theory, his stories, and his critics.
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Name(s): Higgins, Barbara B.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1990
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 80 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Robert Penn Warren is an accomplished poet, novelist, teacher, and critic. Critics of his work consider the short story to be the weakest genre in his canon; however, an examination of each of the fourteen stories in The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories with a combination reader-response, historical, and analytical reading proves that some of the stories are very good. A comparison of these stories with "Technical Problems and Principles in the Composition of Fiction--A Summary," the appendix of Understanding Fiction, an outstanding textbook co-authored by Warren, emphasizes their quality. The stories should not be grouped under the label "Stories of Robert Penn Warren," but rather they should be read, enjoyed, and judged as individual works of art.
Identifier: 14628 (digitool), FADT14628 (IID), fau:11422 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1990.
Subject(s): Warren, Robert Penn,--1905---Criticism and interpretation
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