Robert Coover And The Generosity Of The Page
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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.
Make Em Laugh
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Author : Zeke Jarvis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-04-07
Make Em Laugh written by Zeke Jarvis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with Social Science categories.
This lighthearted and eye-opening book explores the role of comedy in cultural and political critiques of American society from the past century. This unprecedented look at the history of satire in America showcases the means by which our society is informed by humor—from the way we examine the news, to how we communicate with each other, to what we seek out for entertainment. From biographical information to critical reception of material and personalities, the book features humorists from both literary and popular culture settings spanning the past 100 years. Through its 180 entries, this comprehensive volume covers a range of artists—individuals such as Joan Rivers, Hunter S. Thompson, and Chris Rock—and topics, including vaudeville, cartoons, and live performances. The content is organized by media and genre to showcase connections between writers and performers. Chapters include an alphabetical listing of humorists grouped by television and film stars, stand-up and performance comics, literary humorists, and humorists in popular print.
Dear Incomprehension
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Author : Stéphane Vanderhaeghe
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2024
Dear Incomprehension written by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Dear Incomprehension tackles a broad swath of contemporary literature currently labeled "speculative fiction." A blurring of genres that includes science fiction, modern fairy tales, and avant-garde experimental fiction, these works are extremely popular but also derive from highly sophisticated philosophical and aesthetic sensibilities, ones that call into question and uproot the very foundations of stories and storytelling. Because such fictions subvert most conventional narrative devices-plot, recognizable characters, verisimilitude, logic, legibility-they deliberately confound almost any kind of conventional reading and criticism. So, what do you do with a text that cannot be conventionally read or understood? To do such a literature justice, the traditional frameworks of literary criticism fail, and Dear Incomprehension is more of an extended philosophical essay than it is a traditional work of criticism, as oblique and unconventional in its voice, tone, and methods as the texts it illuminates"--
Generosity
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Author : Richard Powers
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Generosity written by Richard Powers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Fiction categories.
Tri Quarterly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Tri Quarterly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with College prose categories.
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.
Mentors Muses Monsters
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Author : Elizabeth Benedict
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Mentors Muses Monsters written by Elizabeth Benedict and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Thirty writers look back at the the people, events, and books that launched their literary lives.
Going For A Beer Selected Short Fictions
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Author : Robert Coover
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2018-02-06
Going For A Beer Selected Short Fictions written by Robert Coover and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Fiction categories.
“A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master.… Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor.” —Yu-Yun Hsieh, The New York Times Book Review Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as “a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America.” Here, in this selection of his best stories, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe. While invading the dreams and nightmares of others, Coover cuts to the core of how realism works.
The New York Times Book Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-07
The New York Times Book Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-07 with Books categories.
Sex Scene
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Author : Eric Schaefer
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-21
Sex Scene written by Eric Schaefer and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-21 with Performing Arts categories.
Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media—film and television, recorded sound, and publishing—that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay pornography, the use of multimedia in sex education, and the sexual innuendo of The Love Boat. Scholars of cultural studies, history, and media studies, the contributors bring shared concerns to their diverse topics. They highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private, the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures, and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights. The provocative surveys and case studies in this nuanced cultural history reframe the "sexual revolution" as the mass sexualization of our mediated world. Contributors. Joseph Lam Duong, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin M. Flanagan, Elena Gorfinkel, Raymond J. Haberski Jr., Joan Hawkins, Kevin Heffernan, Eithne Johnson, Arthur Knight, Elana Levine, Christie Milliken, Eric Schaefer, Jeffrey Sconce, Jacob Smith, Leigh Ann Wheeler, Linda Williams