| Description |
xxv, 251 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series
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Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 223-242. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Wide angles: Real thing: notes on an American strategy / Alide Cagidmetrio -- Modernism/postmodernism: continuities of a "split" repertoire of narrative themes and strategies (a provisional restatement of a traditional view of twentieth century literary avant-gardism) / Hartwig Isernhagen -- Yours faithfully, the author / Maurice Couturier -- A room of one's own: the author and the reader in the text / Heide Ziegler -- Figure and ground in modern America poetry / Ellman Crasnow -- pt. 2. Applied clinometrics: Exile of Binx Bolling: Walker Percy's Moviegoer / Claude Richard -- Energy of an absence: perfection as useful fiction in the novels of Gaddis and Sorrentino / Johan Thielemans -- Between latency and knowledge: figures of preinitiation in Nabokov and Balthus / Pierre Gault -- "An exact precession": Leonardo, Gertrude, and Guy Davenport's Da Vinci's Bicycle -- On the pertinaciousness of the father, the son, and the subject: the case of Donald Barthelme / Régis Durand -- Living on/off the "reserve": performance, interrogation, and negativity in the works of Raymond Carver / Marc Chénetier -- David Mamet, a virtuoso of invective / Guido Almansi -- Sam Shepard: word and image / Christopher Bigsby. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Criticism -- Europe.
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Criticism. |
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Europe. |
| Added Author |
Chénetier, Marc, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Critical angles. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1986 (OCoLC)559783452 |
| ISBN |
0809312166 |
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9780809312160 |
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