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Pricksongs And Descants
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Author : Robert Coover
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2000-01-05
Pricksongs And Descants written by Robert Coover and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-05 with Fiction categories.
Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods, trailing bread crumbs behind and edging helplessly toward a sinister end that never comes; a husband walks toward the bed where his wife awaits his caresses, but by the time he arrives she's been dead three weeks and detectives are pounding down the door; a teenaged babysitter's evening becomes a kaleidoscope of dangerous erotic fantasies-her employer's, her boyfriend's, her own; an aging, humble carpenter marries a beautiful but frigid woman, and after he's waited weeks to consummate their union she announces that God has made her pregnant. Now available in a Grove paperback, Pricksongs & Descants is a cornerstone of Robert Coover's remarkable career and a brilliant work by a major American writer.
Pricksongs And Descants
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Author : Robert Coover
language : en
Publisher: Plume Books
Release Date : 1970-09
Pricksongs And Descants written by Robert Coover and has been published by Plume Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970-09 with Fiction categories.
Understanding Robert Coover
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Author : Brian Evenson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003
Understanding Robert Coover written by Brian Evenson and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
This text takes on the work of Robert Coover, a major figure of postmodern metafiction. In an analysis of Coover's short stories and novels, it demonstrates how Coover writes in several different modes that cross over into one another.
The Metafictional Muse
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Author : Larry McCaffery
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2010-10-12
The Metafictional Muse written by Larry McCaffery and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass. The term "metafiction" here refers to a strain in American writing where the self-concious approach to the art of fiction-making is a commentary on the nature of meaning itself.
Aesthetic Illusion
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Author : Frederick Burwick
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 1990
Aesthetic Illusion written by Frederick Burwick and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
Pricksongs Descants
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Author : Robert Coover
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-04-28
Pricksongs Descants written by Robert Coover and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-28 with Fiction categories.
In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs & Descants Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink). And he reshapes his own: a man makes repeating, re-imagined journeys in an office elevator (while his fellow riders taunt and tempt him), and in the seminal, fractal 'The Babysitter' every moment in a single night is played and replayed, every hope and threat of sex and violence done and undone. Coover's dark, wilfil, comic imagination revels brilliantly in contradictions, a master of chaos.
The Noble Savage In The New World Garden
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Author : Gaile McGregor
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1988
The Noble Savage In The New World Garden written by Gaile McGregor and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
This book is a literary history of the Noble Savage and a comprehensive metamorphology of the American mind. Wide-ranging and deep-diving, this book suggests many reevaluations of American heroes and attitudes.
Merriam Webster S Encyclopedia Of Literature
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Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
language : en
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
Release Date : 1995
Merriam Webster S Encyclopedia Of Literature written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and has been published by Merriam-Webster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literature categories.
Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.
A Reader S Companion To The Short Story In English
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Author : Erin Fallon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-31
A Reader S Companion To The Short Story In English written by Erin Fallon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of these writers have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives in their works. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes biography, a review of existing criticism, a lengthier analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The volume begins with a detailed introduction to the short story genre and concludes with an annotated bibliography of major works on short story theory.
Robert Coover And The Generosity Of The Page
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Author : Stephane Vanderhaeghe
language : en
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Robert Coover And The Generosity Of The Page written by Stephane Vanderhaeghe and has been published by Deep Vellum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page is an unconventional study of Robert Coover's work from his early masterpiece The Origin of the Brunists (1966) to the recent Noir (2010). Written in the second person, it offers a self-reflexive investigation into the ways in which Coover's stories often challenge the reader to resist the conventions of sense-making and even literary criticism. By portraying characters lost in surroundings they often fail to grasp, Coover's work playfully enacts a "(melo)drama of cognition" that mirrors the reader's own desire to interpret and make sense of texts in unequivocal ways. This tendency in Coover's writing is indicative of a larger refusal of the ready-made, of the once-and-for-all or the authoritative, celebrating instead, in its generosity, the widening of possibilities—thus inevitably forcing the reader-critic to acknowledge the arbitrariness and artificiality of her responses.