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Understanding Robert Coover (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) PDF

311 Pages·2003·1.287 MB·English
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by Brian K. Evenson| 2003| 311 pages| 1.287| English

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In Understanding Robert Coover, Brian Evenson takes on the work of Robert Coover, a major figure of postmodern metafiction. In a careful analysis of Coover's short stories and novels, Evenson demonstrates how Coover writes in several different modes that cross over into one another. He explores Coover's concern with notions of community and the ways communities hold together through a series of shared stories and myths--myths that often, once they lose their effectiveness, come to justify violence. In this comprehensive study, Evenson discusses Coover’s novels, from his award-winning first book, The Origin of the Brunists, to his controversial The Public Burning--which has as its narrator the young Vice President Richard Nixon. He studies the writer’s reworkings of fairy tales in Pricksongs & Descants, Pinocchio in Venice, and Briar Rose, as well as the revisionary Western, Ghost Town. Evenson also examines Coover’s latest novel, The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Director’s Cut. Evenson explicates Coover's rewriting of myths and explores his willingness to break the frame of his fiction so as to include both fantastic and realistic elements. Evenson also shows that, for Coover, storymaking is essential to what makes us human, and for that reason his ideas remain at the heart of what makes literature dynamic and intriguing. Understanding Robert Coover addresses these issues, and explicates Coover's often difficult and formally innovative fiction.

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Author:Brian K. Evenson
Publication Year:2003
ISBN:9781423744962
Pages:311
Language:English
File Size:1.287
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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