Background
Blotner, Joseph Leo was born on June 21, 1923 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Joseph and Johanna Angela (Slattery) Blotner.
( Politics, the workings of government and of people in g...)
Politics, the workings of government and of people in government, has long been a fertile field for exploration by the novelist. The political arena offers many examples of conflict—between individuals, groups, or the individual and the group, or within the individual. It is natural then that a sizable body of fiction has grown up using politics as a main source of action. In this study Joseph Blotner attempts "to discover the image of American poIitics as presented in American novels over a sixty-year span." His major discussion is limited to 138 novels dealing directly with candidates, officeholders, party officials, or "individuals performing political acts as they are conventionally understood." He also refers to nineteenth-century predecessors, European analogues, or other twentieth-century American novels as they bear on his discussions. Blotner gives a thorough examination of certain archetypal figures (the young hero, the political boss, and the Southern demagogue), which appear in central or subordinate positions in the action of many political novels. He finds that the novels reflect certain major movements or upheavals in the political history of the United States or the world (in particular, fascism and McCarthyism), and that they also give the political aspects of universal attitudes or problems (corruption, disillusionment, reaction, and the role of women and of the intellectual). The author presents a detailed analysis of each of these subjects, prefacing each analysis by a survey of the historical background out of which the fiction grew, and including a brief and often pungent assessment of the literary merits of each novel discussed. He also surveys a large body of political fiction which cuts across all of these categories: the novel of the future—both utopian and apocalyptic. The Modern American Political Novel will be of great interest to the student of twentieth-century literature; the political scientist, the sociologist, and even the practicing politician will also find its analyses useful and illuminating.
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From 1957 - 1958 William Faulkner was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia under a grant from the Emily Clak Balch Fund for American Literature. this is a selection from the thirty-seven group conferences and an uncounted number of individual office meeting with students and staff. all of which were recorded on tape and now deposited in the Alderman Library of the University.
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William Faulkner's life and work--with over 100 illustrations, photographs, drawings, facsimile, notes and index, chronology and genealogy--dustjacket
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Blotner, Joseph Leo was born on June 21, 1923 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Joseph and Johanna Angela (Slattery) Blotner.
Bachelor, Drew University, 1947. Master of Arts, Northwestern University, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1951.
Assistant director research services, Radio Corporation of America laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey, 1949-1953;
instructor English, U. Idaho, 1953-1955;
assistant professor, associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, 1955-1968;
Professor of English, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1968-1971;
Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1971-1993;
emeritus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1993. Visiting Professor of English Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1962. William Faulkner lecturer U. Mississippi, 1977.
Visiting Professor of English U. Arizona, 1982, U. Rome, 1984. Consultant Encyclopedia British Ednl. Corporation, Tomorrow Entertainment Inc., Center for Study Southern Culture, Mississippi ETV Authority.
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Served to Second lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Senior fellow Michigan Society Fellows. Member Modern Language Association (chairman American literature section 1981), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Yvonne Wright, August 24, 1946 (deceased 1990). Children: Tracy Willoughby, Pamela Stover, Nancy Niehoff. Married Martha C. Allen, January 2, 1993 (deceased 2006).