Victor Strandberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1042713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Strandberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Strandberg |
| SIGNATURE | STRANDBERG V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Eliot Agonistes
During Eliot’s six-year pursuit of a doctorate in philosophy at Harvard, he was privately ridiculing such mentors as F. H. Bradley, Henri Bergson, Josiah Royce, and Irving Babbitt, most notably in his journal, The March Hare. The crucial issue was their promotion of “the Absolute” (sometimes called “the ground of being),” a concept that Eliot found unable to cope with the sufferings relating to sex and death that are hugely prominent in Eliot’s p…
Cracking the Wasp Code
“Cracking the WASP Code: Joan Didion and the Soul Word” is a study in Literature and Language. The “Language” component is the idea of the Soul Word, used here as a generic term for words that represent a code of values and behavior that is admired and aspired to in various subcultures. Examples include “Soul” (African-American), “L’Chaim!” (Jewish), “Genutzat” (Armenian), “Sissu” (Finnish), “Dom” (Serbo-Croatian), “Yamato-Damashi” (Japanese), “M…
Dangerous Intimacy
Book Review| March 01 2005 Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years By Karen Lystra. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2004. xxi, 342 pp. $27.50. Victor Strandberg Victor Strandberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-186 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Dat…
Surplus theory in the cultures market
Poems of Pure Imagination
Book Review| December 01 2000 Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition By Lesa Carnes Corrigan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 171 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95. Victor Strandberg Victor Strandberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 882–883. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-882 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Greek Mind/Jewish Soul
Cynthia Ozick's Fiction
The Braided Dream
Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination
An examination of the life and works of Robert Penn Warren, this book focuses on his central concern with the gap between American ideals and the actualities of American life. This text also examines Warren's views on the future of democracy and the individual
A Southern Renascence Man
Book Review| October 01 1985 A Southern Renascence Man: Views of Robert Penn Warren ed. by Walter B. Edgar A Southern Renascence Man: Views of Robert Penn Warren. Edited by Edgar, Walter B.. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Pp. 116. $14.95. Victor Strandberg Victor Strandberg Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (4): 441–442. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382…
A White Heron' and the Question of Minor Literature
Advance on Chaos
Then & Now
Book Review| July 01 1984 Then & Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren by Floyd C. Watkins Then & Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren. By Watkins, Floyd C.. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1982. Pp. xii, 184. $15.00. Victor Strandberg Victor Strandberg Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1984) 83 (3): 358–359. https://doi.org/…
The Republic of Letters in America
Book Review| July 01 1983 The Republic of Letters in America: The Correspondence of John Peale Bishop and Allen Tate ed. by Thomas Daniel Young, John J. Hindle The Republic of Letters in America: The Correspondence of John Peale Bishop and Allen Tate. edited by Young, Thomas Daniel; Hindle, John J.. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1981. Pp. 2, 232. $17.00. Victor Strandberg Victor Strandberg Duke University Search for other works by …
The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren
A Faulkner Overview
Robert Penn Warren
The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren
The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren
Though it has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, the poetry of Robert Penn Warren still is not widely or well understood. In this study, Victor H. Strandberg redresses this imbalance by providing a comprehensive survey of the poetic canon of this gifted, complex, and much-neglected poet.\nWarren writes in the tradition of Western poets concerned with the painful experience of a forced, one-way passage from i…
Down Mailer's Way
American Free Verse
Eliot's Insomniacs
Research Article| January 01 1969 Eliot’s Insomniacs Victor H. Strandberg Victor H. Strandberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (1): 67–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-68-1-67 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Victor H. Strandberg; Eliot’s Insomniacs. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1969; 68 (1): 67–73. doi: https:/…
The Artist's Black Veil
mystery of sin in the hearts of his fellows, is condemned live in isolation and despair forever after. It would appear that a recurrence of Goodman Brown's subtle pride has brought the minister the area of the unpardonable that which Hawthorne has described as a cold intellectual prying into the secret guilt of others. Certainly, Hooper's sermons linger powerfully over this topic, until each listener feels uncomfortably open the minister's stealt…
Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry by L. S. Dembo
Book Review| July 01 1968 Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry by L. S. Dembo Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry. By Dembo, L. S.. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Pp. ix, 248. $6.00. Victor H. Strandberg Victor H. Strandberg Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (3): 570–571. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-67-3-570 Cite Icon Cite Sh…
A Colder Fire
Warren's major theme--whether man can live on a purely naturalistic level--is seen as a parallel to the major intellectual currents of American literature in the past 25 years
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A Colder Fire
Warren's major theme--whether man can live on a purely naturalistic level--is seen as a parallel to the major intellectual currents of American literature in the past 25 years
The Revenger's Tragedy
Research Article| January 01 1966 The Revenger’s Tragedy: Hamlet’s Costly Code Victor H. Strandberg Victor H. Strandberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1966) 65 (1): 95–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-65-1-95 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Victor H. Strandberg; The Revenger’s Tragedy: Hamlet’s Costly Code. South Atlantic …
The Artist's Black Veil
mystery of sin in the hearts of his fellows, is condemned live in isolation and despair forever after. It would appear that a recurrence of Goodman Brown's subtle pride has brought the minister the area of the unpardonable that which Hawthorne has described as a cold intellectual prying into the secret guilt of others. Certainly, Hooper's sermons linger powerfully over this topic, until each listener feels uncomfortably open the minister's stealt…
Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry by L. S. Dembo
Book Review| July 01 1968 Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry by L. S. Dembo Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry. By Dembo, L. S.. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Pp. ix, 248. $6.00. Victor H. Strandberg Victor H. Strandberg Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (3): 570–571. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-67-3-570 Cite Icon Cite Sh…
Eliot's Insomniacs
Research Article| January 01 1969 Eliot’s Insomniacs Victor H. Strandberg Victor H. Strandberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (1): 67–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-68-1-67 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Victor H. Strandberg; Eliot’s Insomniacs. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1969; 68 (1): 67–73. doi: https:/…
American Free Verse
Down Mailer's Way
The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren
Though it has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, the poetry of Robert Penn Warren still is not widely or well understood. In this study, Victor H. Strandberg redresses this imbalance by providing a comprehensive survey of the poetic canon of this gifted, complex, and much-neglected poet.\nWarren writes in the tradition of Western poets concerned with the painful experience of a forced, one-way passage from i…
The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren
The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren
A Faulkner Overview
Robert Penn Warren
The Republic of Letters in America
Book Review| July 01 1983 The Republic of Letters in America: The Correspondence of John Peale Bishop and Allen Tate ed. by Thomas Daniel Young, John J. Hindle The Republic of Letters in America: The Correspondence of John Peale Bishop and Allen Tate. edited by Young, Thomas Daniel; Hindle, John J.. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1981. Pp. 2, 232. $17.00. Victor Strandberg Victor Strandberg Duke University Search for other works by …
Advance on Chaos
Then & Now
Book Review| July 01 1984 Then & Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren by Floyd C. Watkins Then & Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren. By Watkins, Floyd C.. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1982. Pp. xii, 184. $15.00. Victor Strandberg Victor Strandberg Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1984) 83 (3): 358–359. https://doi.org/…
A Southern Renascence Man
Book Review| October 01 1985 A Southern Renascence Man: Views of Robert Penn Warren ed. by Walter B. Edgar A Southern Renascence Man: Views of Robert Penn Warren. Edited by Edgar, Walter B.. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Pp. 116. $14.95. Victor Strandberg Victor Strandberg Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (4): 441–442. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382…
A White Heron' and the Question of Minor Literature
Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination
An examination of the life and works of Robert Penn Warren, this book focuses on his central concern with the gap between American ideals and the actualities of American life. This text also examines Warren's views on the future of democracy and the individual
The Braided Dream
Cynthia Ozick's Fiction
Greek Mind/Jewish Soul
Surplus theory in the cultures market
Poems of Pure Imagination
Book Review| December 01 2000 Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition By Lesa Carnes Corrigan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 171 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95. Victor Strandberg Victor Strandberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 882–883. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-882 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Dangerous Intimacy
Book Review| March 01 2005 Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years By Karen Lystra. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2004. xxi, 342 pp. $27.50. Victor Strandberg Victor Strandberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-186 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Dat…
Eliot Agonistes
During Eliot’s six-year pursuit of a doctorate in philosophy at Harvard, he was privately ridiculing such mentors as F. H. Bradley, Henri Bergson, Josiah Royce, and Irving Babbitt, most notably in his journal, The March Hare. The crucial issue was their promotion of “the Absolute” (sometimes called “the ground of being),” a concept that Eliot found unable to cope with the sufferings relating to sex and death that are hugely prominent in Eliot’s p…
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