Word: meta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stark and Huey Long and have claimed that Warren has exalted Long by his treatment of Stark's character. This criticism is beside the point. The novel in no-wise constitutes an apologia for Long or for the South and to say that it does is to ignore the meta-physical side of Warren's thought. For despite the novel's immersion in a vast welter of detail about Southern life, "All The King's men" is fundamentally a parable of Evil...