Robert Detweiler

Biographic Data

ID680917
NAMERobert Detweiler
GIVEN NAMESRobert
FAMILY NAMEDetweiler
SIGNATUREDETWEILER R
AFFILIATIONSEmory University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
H-INDEX1

  • Literary Echoes of Postmodernism

    Robert DetweilerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1998

    Literary Echoes of Postmodernism Get access Robert Detweiler Robert Detweiler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 4, WINTER 1998, Pages 737–746, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/66.4.737 Published: 01 December 1998

  • Carnival of Shame: Doctorow and the Rosenbergs

    Open AccessRobert DetweilerARTICLEReligion and American Culture A…1996

    Literature can turn language, for the moment at least, against the sentence of death."Considering the national and international furor provoked by the sensational early 1950's "atom spy" trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, one may be surprised that these dramatic and traumatic events have not inspired more literary artistry than they have. But a prominent playwright, Arthur Miller, did write The Crucible (produced in 1953) in part …

  • The Daemonic Imagination: Biblical Text and Secular Story

    Richard Greenfield, Richard P H Greenfield et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • United States

    Open AccessRobert DetweilerARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1987

  • Book Notices

    Robert DetweilerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1986

    Journal Article BOOK NOTICES Get access Evil in Modern Myth and Ritual. Richard Stivers. The University of Georgia Press, 1982. 188 pages, $16.00 cloth, $8.00 paper. Robert Detweiler Robert Detweiler Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 196-a–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIV.1.196-a Published: 01 March 1…

  • Sociology

    Open AccessRobert DetweilerARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1984

  • Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today

    Robert Detweiler, Geoffrey H HartmanARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1982

  • Religions of Western Antiquity

    Robert DetweilerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1982

    Journal Article RELIGIONS OF WESTERN ANTIQUITY Get access The Semiotics of the Passion Narrative Topics and Figures By Louis Marin Translated by Alfred M Johnson, Jr Pickwick Press, 1980 263 pages $13.50 Robert Detweiler Robert Detweiler Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume L, Issue 4, December 1982, Pages 624–625, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaar…

  • The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War

    Robert Detweiler, Kenneth M StamppARTICLEThe History Teacher1981

    A collection of essays by a master historian. Amongst the subjects that Stampp tackles are the inevitability of the Civil War and the truth about why the confederacy actually died. The other essays are a mix of historiography and analysis of issues including Lincoln's role in reinforcing Fort Sumter, the impact of psychology in trading slaves, and the role of racism in the Republican Party.

  • Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

    Robert Detweiler, Leon F LitwackARTICLEThe History Teacher1981

  • The Southern Colonial Frontier, 1607-1763

    Robert Detweiler, W Stitt RobinsonARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1980

    Journal Article The Southern Colonial Frontier, 1607–1763 Get access The Southern Colonial Frontier, 1607–1763. By Robinson W. Stitt. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. xvii + 293 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $12.50.) Robert Detweiler Robert Detweiler San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 11, Issue 4, October…

  • Liberation in the Americas: Comparative Aspects of the Independence Movements in Mexico and the United States

    Peggy K Liss, Robert Detweiler et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1979

  • Updike's A Month of Sundays and the Language of the Unconscious

    Robert DetweilerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1979

    Journal Article Updike's A Month of Sundays and the Language of the Unconscious Get access Robert Detweiler Robert Detweiler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 4, December 1979, Pages 609–625, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLVII.4.609 Published: 01 December 1979

  • John Pory/1572-1636: The Life and Letters of a Man of Many Parts. Letters and Other Minor Writings: Microfiche Supplement

    Robert Detweiler, Robert C Detweiler et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1978

  • Arts, Literature, and Religion

    Robert DetweilerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1977

  • Theological Trends of Postmodern Fiction

    Robert DetweilerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1976

    Journal Article Theological Trends of Postmodern Fiction Get access ROBERT DETWEILER ROBERT DETWEILER ROBERT DETWEILER is director of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University Author of a book on John Updike, he has published essays on interrelationships of theology and modern fiction Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, Jun…

  • Party Politics in the Continental Congress

    Robert Detweiler, Robert C Detweiler et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1975

  • Men and Brothers: Anglo-American Antislavery Cooperation

    Robert Detweiler, Betty FladelandARTICLEThe History Teacher1973

  • Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the People as Seen by Europeans

    Open AccessRobert Detweiler, Carl Ortwin SauerARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1972

  • The Moral Failure of Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice

    Open AccessRobert DetweilerARTICLEThe Journal of Popular Culture1970

  • The Quest for a Religious America

    Robert DetweilerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1967

    The Quest for a Religious America Get access Theological Ethics. Volume I: Foundations. By William H. Lazareth. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966. xxxiii+697 pages. $12.50. ROBERT DETWEILER ROBERT DETWEILER Florida Presbyterian College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXV, Issue 3, September 1967, Pages 281–285, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXV.3.281 …

  • American Fiction and the Loss of Faith

    Open AccessRobert DetweilerARTICLETheology Today1964

    “The loss of faith which has characterized our fiction ... seems to have consisted of three steps: first, an awareness by writers and critics of the decline of traditional Christian values and often an accompanying disavowal of them; second, a sense of loss precipitated by the failure to find adequate substitutes for those values; third, a re-evaluation of those values from a standpoint of disillusion, resulting in a new recognition of the Christ…

  • Christ in American Religious Fiction

    Robert DetweilerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1964

    Journal Article Christ in American Religious Fiction Get access ROBERT DETWEILER ROBERT DETWEILER ROBERT DETWEILER is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. He is the author of The Spiritual Crisis in Mid-Century American Fiction (Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 1963). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume…

  • Theology and Literature

    Robert DetweilerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1964

  • Zen and American Thought

    Open AccessRobert Detweiler, Van Meter AmesARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1963