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Runyon, Randolph Paul was born on February 13, 1947 in Maysville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Harold Ezekiel and Constance Coralie (Jones) Runyon.
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Reading Raymond Carver
(This study of the short stories of Raymond Carver also ta...)
This study of the short stories of Raymond Carver also takes excursions into his poetry and essays. Runyon argues that the stories are intricately linked as part of a cohesive body of work.
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Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad
(In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows th...)
In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work. In September 1844, Delia Webster took a break from her teaching responsibilities at Lexington Female Academy and accompanied Calvin Fairbank, a Methodist preacher from Oberlin College, on a Saturdary drive in the country. At the end of their trip, their passengers―Lewis Hayden and his family―remained in southern Ohio, ticketed for the Underground Railroad. Webster and Fairbank returned to a near riot and jail cells. Webster earned a sentence to the state penitentiary in Frankfort, where the warden, Newton Craig, married and a father, became enamored of her and was tempted into a compromising relationship he would come to regret. Hayden reached freedom in Boston, where he became a prominent businessman, the ringleader in the courthouse rescue of a fugitive slave, and the last link in the chain of events that led to the Harpers Ferry Raid. Webster, the focal point at which these lives intersect, remains an enigma. Was she, as one contemporary noted, "A young lady of irreproachable character?" Or, as another observed, "a very bold and defiant kind of woman, without a spark of feminine modesty, and, withal, very shrewd and cunning?" Runyon has doggedly pursued every historical lead to bring color and shape to the tale of these fascinating characters.
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The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren
(The stubborn silence of text passed down from fathers to ...)
The stubborn silence of text passed down from fathers to their sons is examined in this highly original study of Robert Penn Warren's fiction. In every case, that text-whether a letter, a poem, a handbill or a wink-refuses to disclose what the son who reads it wants to know. This recurring scene, clearly inscribed in the plot of each of the novels, gives coherence to Warren's art and at the same time writes the reader into the story. We become the protagonist son, and the questions he asks are the ones we too want to ask. And to gain access to the text, we must learn to decipher what Warren calls the logic of the dream. Through the double focus on the text as dreamwork and as paternal inheritance, Runyon explores the self-referentiality of Warren's fiction. The novels become the kind of taciturn father's text of which they speak. The reader shares the hero's anguish at being compelled to interpret what might not exist, and the dreams the novels recount become models for how the stories themselves are put together. Each of the ten novels, as well as the short-story collection The Circus in the Attic, is given a close reading, preceded by a detailed synopsis of the plot, that reveals the profound unity of Warren's fictive creation. Randolph Paul Runyon is Professor of French at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of The Braided Dream: Robert Penn Warren's Late Poetry and Fowles/Irving/Barthes: Canonical Variations on an Apocryphal Theme.
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Randolph Paul Runyon
Edit ProfileEducation
Student, Harvard University, 1964-1967; student, St. John's College, 1967-1969; Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1973.
Career
Professor, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio., since 1977.
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Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad
(In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows th...)
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The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren
(The stubborn silence of text passed down from fathers to ...)
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Reading Raymond Carver
(This study of the short stories of Raymond Carver also ta...)
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Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad
Membership
Member Modern Language Association, Robert Penn Warren Circle (president 1995-1996), American Guild Organists.
Connections
Married Elizabeth Baxter Smart, January 1, 1983. Children: Ezekiel Thomas, Augusta Ruth.
