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Victor H. Strandberg

Victor H. Strandberg

Professor Emeritus of English
English
vhs@duke.edu
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
315 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Cracking the Wasp Code: Joan Didion and the Soul Word

Journal article Advances in Literary Study · 2024 Full text Open Access Cite

Updike's Epitaph

Journal article The John Updike Review · 2023 Open Access Cite

Robert Penn Warren and Democracy

Journal article Literary Matters · 2021 Open Access Cite

Adventures in Selfhood: Robert Penn Warren's Portraits of the Artist

Journal article Five Points: a journal of literature and art · 2018 Cite

The Religious/erotic poetry of Reynolds Price

Journal article Studies in the Literary Imagination · January 1, 2002 Open Access Cite

Cormac McCarthy

Journal article · 2001 This essay is part of a collection that contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important American writers. ... Open Access Cite

Surplus theory in the cultures market

Journal article Academic Questions · January 1, 2000 Full text Cite

The Quintessence of Faulkner: A Rose for Emily

Journal article 1993 Paxton Lectureship Runner-Up in The Torch · 1993 Cite

Robert Penn Warren on Blackberry Winter

Journal article Reference Guide to Short Fiction · 1993 Cite

Warren’s Best/Worst Book

Journal article special Memorial section on Warren in The South Carolina Review · 1990 Link to item Cite

Review of Faulkner and Race

Journal article · 1987 Cite

The Art of Cynthia Ozick

Journal article · 1983 Open Access Cite

Faulkner’s God: A Jamesian Perspective

Journal article Faulkner Studies · 1980 Link to item Cite

Festering Lilies: On Surveying the Secret Life of William Shakespeare

Journal article · 1975 A half century and more has elapsed now since T. S. Eliot declared Hamlet to be "most certainly an artistic failure."1 "What is deficient in Hamlet," Eliot went on to say, is that "Hamlet (the man) is dominated by an emotion which is inexpressible, because ... Open Access Cite

Between Truth and Fact: Faulkner’s Symbols of Identity

Journal article Modern Fiction Studies · 1975 Cite

The Poetry of the Sixties

Journal article Special Robert Penn Warren Number of Four Quarters · May 1972 Cite

Poe's Hollow Men

Journal article · March 1969 Open Access Cite

Review of Robert Penn Warren: A Bibliography

Journal article American Literature · March 1969 Cite

Eliot's Insomniacs

Journal article · 1969 Open Access Cite

Updike’s Midpoints

Journal article The Above-Ground Review · 1969 Cite

The Incarnations of Robert Penn Warren

Journal article Shenandoah · 1969 Cite

THE ARTIST'S BLACK VEIL

Journal article · December 1968 Open Access Cite

A Hell for Our Time

Journal article The Christian Century · September 1968 Cite

Warren's Osmosis

Journal article · 1968 Open Access Cite

The Comedy of Othello

Journal article · 1968 Open Access Cite

Dante's Inferno: The Simoniacs

Journal article · October 1966 Open Access Cite

Hamlet’s Costly Code

Journal article The South Atlantic Quarterly · 1966 Link to item Cite

A Palm for Pamela: Three Studies in the Game of Love

Journal article · 1966 Strandberg discusses the Pamela archetype in Shakespeare's Juliet, Kālidāsa's Shakuntala, and Hemingway's Catherine Barkley. ... Open Access Cite

Faulkner’s Inversion

Journal article The Sewanee Review · 1965 Link to item Cite

Review of Robert Penn Warren: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1922-1979

Journal article The South Atlantic Review · 1965 Cite

The Crisis of Belief in Modern Literature

Journal article The English Journal · October 1964 Cite

Eliot’s Whispers of Immortality

Journal article The Explicator · May 1959 Cite