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Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page

Author : Stephane Vanderhaeghe
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564788423
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page written by Stephane Vanderhaeghe and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Author : Zeke Jarvis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Make 'em Laugh! written by Zeke Jarvis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608476
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions written by Robert Coover and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 Origin of the Brunists

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137432
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of the Brunists written by Robert Coover and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a peculiar man subject to religious visions, is adopted as a prophet and quickly gains a following. Rapidly disseminated through the magic of media exposure, the cult spreads across America, and as its members gather on the Mount of Redemption to await the apocalypse, Robert Coover lays bare the madness of religious frenzy and the sometimes greater madness of normal citizens. The Origin of the Brunists is vintage Coover -- comic, fearless, incisive, and brilliantly executed.

Noir

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590204557
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Noir written by Robert Coover and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Metafiction lustily mates with hard-boiled mystery in this hilarious homage to Raymond Chandler and company.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) You are Philip M. Noir, Private Investigator. A mysterious young widow hires you to find her husband's killer—if he was killed. Then your client is killed and her body disappear—if she was your client. Your search for clues takes you through all levels of the city, from classy lounges to lowlife dives, from jazz bars to a rich sex kitten’s bedroom, from yachts to the morgue. The Case of the Vanishing Black Widow unfolds over five days aboveground and three or four in smugglers’ tunnels, though flashback and anecdote, and expands time into something much larger. You don’t always get the joke, though most people think what’s happening is pretty funny. “As his dazzling career continues to demonstrate, Mr. Coover is a one-man Big Bang of exploding creative force.” —The New York Times “Like Thomas Pynchon in 2009’s Inherent Vice, Coover pops off laughs on every page.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[An] absurdist take on the hard-boiled detective novel . . . depraved and amusing.” —Kirkus Reviews

Johns Wife

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684830434
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Johns Wife written by Robert Coover and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of "The Public Burning" spins a darkly magical tale about life in an ordinary small town and the woman who casts a spell on its inhabitants.

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780749398200
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop written by Robert Coover and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tri-quarterly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Tri-quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Robert Coover Papers

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Robert Coover Papers written by Robert Coover and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Author : Gert Jonke
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564783998
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book The Review of Contemporary Fiction written by Gert Jonke and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.

Mentors, Muses & Monsters

Author : Elizabeth Benedict
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438443501
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Mentors, Muses & Monsters written by Elizabeth Benedict and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty writers look back at the the people, events, and books that launched their literary lives.

The New York Times Book Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-07 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sex Scene

Author : Eric Schaefer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376806
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Sex Scene written by Eric Schaefer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Poets & Writers

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poets & Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethel Rosenberg

Author : Anne Sebba
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250198658
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Ethel Rosenberg written by Anne Sebba and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple in more than thirty years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becoming an opera singer, but instead found herself struggling with the social mores of the 1950’s. She longed to be a good wife and perfect mother, while battling the political paranoia of the McCarthy era, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and a mother who never valued her. Because of her profound love for and loyalty to her husband, she refused to incriminate him, despite government pressure on her to do so. Instead, she courageously faced the death penalty for a crime she hadn’t committed, orphaning her children. Seventy years after her trial, this is the first time Ethel’s story has been told with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer and her psychotherapist over a three-year period, two of them in solitary confinement. Hers is the resonant story of what happens when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens.

Nobody Grew but the Business

Author : Joseph Tabbi
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810131439
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Nobody Grew but the Business written by Joseph Tabbi and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2016 Society for Midland Authors Award for Biography & Memoir During his lifetime, William Gaddis (1922–1998) evaded biographical questions, never read from his work publicly, and didn’t allow his photograph to appear on his books. Before his novel J R (1975) won Gaddis the National Book Award and some measure of renown, he had given up the bohemian world of 1950s Greenwich Village for a series of corporate jobs that both paid the bills and provided an inside view of the encroachment of market values into every corner of American culture. By illustrating the interconnectedness of Gaddis’s life and work, Tabbi, among his foremost interpreters, demystifies the “difficult author” and shows a writer who was as attuned as any to the way Americans talk, and who sensitively chronicled the gradual commodification of artistic endeavor. Illuminating, heartbreaking, and masterful, Tabbi’s book gives us the most subtly drawn portrait to date of one of the twentieth century’s seminal novelists.

John Gardner

Author : Barry Silesky
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565127595
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book John Gardner written by Barry Silesky and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a decade--from 1973 to 1982--John Gardner was one of America's most famous writers and certainly its most flamboyantly opinionated. His 1973 novel, The Sunlight Dialogues, was on the New York Times bestseller list for fourteen weeks. Once in the limelight, he picked public fights with his peers, John Barth, Joseph Heller, and Norman Mailer among them, and wrote five more bestsellers. Gardner's personal life was as chaotic as his writing life was prolific. At twenty, he married his cousin Joan, and after a long marriage that was both passionate and violent, left her for Liz Rosenberg, a student. Only a few years later, he left Rosenberg for another student, Susan Thornton. Famous for disregarding his own safety, he rode his motorcycle at crazy speeds, incurred countless concussions, and once broke both of his arms. He survived what was diagnosed as terminal colon cancer only to resume his prodigious drinking and to die in a motorcycle accident at age forty-nine, a week before his third wedding. Biographer Barry Silesky captures John Gardner's fabulously contradictory genius and his capacity to both dazzle and infuriate. He portrays Gardner as a man of unrestrained energy and blatant contempt for convention and also as a man whose charisma drew students and devoted followers wherever he went. Amazingly, Gardner published twenty-nine books in all, including eleven fiction titles, a book-length epic poem, six books of medieval criticism, and a major biography. Twenty-one years after his death, his On Moral Fiction and The Art Of Fiction are still read and debated in MFA programs across the country. This is a full-scale biography of a writer who was, for ten years, almost bigger than life. It lives up to its subject magnificently.