Dialectic of Desire and the Populist Subject in All the King's Men.
Amidst the current political turmoil in America, a fresh look at a forgotten bestseller like All the King's Men provides new insights on the recurrent phenomenon of "populism," which is on the rise throughout the world. In this novel, Robert Penn Warren demonstrates that the sphere of personal relat...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 64 - 80 |
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Spring2020
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