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title The Blood-marriage of Earth and Sky Robert Penn Warrens Later - photo 1

title:The Blood-marriage of Earth and Sky : Robert Penn Warren's Later Novels Southern Literary Studies
author:Casper, Leonard.
publisher:Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin:080712155X
print isbn13:9780807121559
ebook isbn13:9780585341842
language:English
subjectWarren, Robert Penn,--1905---Fictional works, Southern States--In literature, Fiction--Technique.
publication date:1997
lcc:PS3545.A748Z648 1997eb
ddc:813/.52
subject:Warren, Robert Penn,--1905---Fictional works, Southern States--In literature, Fiction--Technique.
The Blood-Marriage of Earth and Sky
Page i
Southern Literary Studies
Fred Hobson, Editor
Page v
The Blood-Marriage of Earth and Sky
Robert Penn Warren's Later Novels
Leonard Casper
Page vi Copyright 1997 by Louisiana State University Press All rights - photo 2
Page vi
Copyright 1997 by Louisiana State University Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
First printing
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Designer: Amanda McDonald Key
Typefaces: Display: Cerigo Book; text: Sabon
Typesetter: Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc.
Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Permission has been granted by the original publishers for the reprinting of the following essays in revised form herein: Chapter 2: "Late Incitements of the Sun," Modern Age, XXXI (Winter, 1987), 7275, by permission of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc., Wilmington, Del. Chapter 3: "Toward the Great Amen," in Time's Glory: Original Essays on Robert Penn Warren, ed. James Grimshaw (Conway, Ark., 1986), by permission of the University of Central Arkansas Press, Conway, Ark. Chapter 4: "Journey to the Interior: The Cave," Modern Fiction Studies, VI (Spring, 1960), 6572, by permission of Modern Fiction Studies, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. Chapter 5: "Trial by Wilderness: Warren's Exemplum," Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, III (Autumn, 1962), 4553, by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. Chapter 6: ''Ark, Flood, and Negotiated Covenant," Four Quarters, XXI (May, 1972), 10015, by permission of the English Department, La Salle College, Philadelphia, Pa. Chapter 7: "Beyond Lostness and Too-Lateness: Warren's Evergreening Glen," Texas Quarterly, XXI (August, 1978), 5363, by permission of the University of Texas Press, Austin. Chapter 8: "Circle with a Center Outside: Robert Penn Warren's A Place to Come To," Southwest Review, LXV (Autumn, 1980), 399410, by permission of Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas. "Appendix: Conversations with the Philippine Deep" includes an excerpt from "Ingat! Critic at Large: An Unauthorized Autobiography" in the author's Sunsurfers Seen from Afar: Critical Essays, 19911996 (Metro Manila, 1996), published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Casper, Leonard, 1923
The blood-marriage of earth and sky : Robert Penn Warren's later
novels / Leonard Casper.
p. cm. (Southern literary studies)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-8071-2155-X (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Warren, Robert Penn, 1905 Fictional works. 2. Southern
StatesIn literature. I. Title. II. Series.
PS3545.A748Z648 1997
813' .52dc21 97-20271
CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.Picture 3
Page vii
In memory of Edward L. Hirsh
and Frederick J. Hoffman
Page ix
Contents
Preface
xi
1
Intimate Distances
1
2
Late Incitements of the Sun
7
3
Toward the Great Amen
13
4
Journey to the Interior
23
5
Trial by Wilderness
32
6
Ark, Flood, and Negotiated Covenant
41
7
Beyond Lostness and Too-Lateness: An Ever-Greening Glen
47
8
Circle with Its Center Outside
58
9
The Furthest Point of Navigation
70

Page x
Appendix: Conversations with the Philippine Deep
79
Critical Works Cited
83
Index
85

Page xi
Preface
Picture 4
That was what he said, for me not to follow him.
But I did follow him, all the years.
These words at the end of "Blackberry Winter" mark the memories of a once nine-year-old, threatened with having his throat cut by a tramp passing through the flood-ravaged farm of the boy's father. What attracts the boy is the utter strangeness of the tramp, who almost spits on the father's boota strangeness beyond even the unseasonable weather, the flood, the surprising litter that appears from under the best tenant's cabin. All these others are accepted with calm comprehension: in this world, expect the unexpected; meanwhile work together to restore order, until the next reminder of mankind's fallen state. The tramp represents that same dark dimension of life, without consideration that an opposite dimension might exist or ever evolve. His disdain for the land, his contempt for the community's readiness to take him in if he does his share, seems a declaration that disorder is the first and final state of the world. To measure the truth in that mind-set and what mitigation of it there might be, the boy has to follow him...
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