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Novelistic Love in the Platonic Tradition: Fielding, Faulkner and the Postmodernists
Jennie Wang
The love story is an integral part of many novels. What is its narrative status? How does it function, and why? In this original study of Socratic 'love stories,' from Plato through Fielding and Faulkner to the Postmodernists, Jennie Wang proposes a new narrative theory in the study of the novel, which deconstructs the mimesis of 'love stories' and reconstructs their historicity. Wang claims that in the Platonic tradition, the construction of 'love stories' is often a dramatization of the author's historical vision, philosophical speculations, cultural criticism, or political ideology. Novelistic love functions as a literary medium, a power of free speech, that enables the novelist to speak unspeakable truths and include excluded subjects. -- Provided by publisher
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Yanks Over Europe: American Flyers in World War II
Jerome F. Klinkowitz
Contrasts between fighter combat and the bombers' war support Klinkowitz's belief that notions of the air war were determined by one's position in it. He extends his thesis by showing the vastly different style of air war described by veterans of the North African and Mediterranean campaigns and concludes by studying the effects of such combat on adversaries and victims. - Provided by publisher
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Basepaths
Jerome Klinkowitz
In the timeless world of fiction it is "next year" for the Mason City Royals of Jerry Klinkowitz's award-winning Short Season and Other Stories. Who's back? Just three players: Billy Harmon, Dave Alpert, and the baby-fat slugger Mark Wiggins. But that's good, for in minor league baseball the best players are promoted while the failures are dropped. So except for Billy, Dave, and Mark, who expect just another half-season of fine-tuning before moving up, it's an open field for a new season of hopes and dreams - but for nightmares too. The team gets a new manager, Ken Boyenga (with a colorful major league past) just as its local ownership elects a new club president, Al Swenson (a man with two daughters and a business with the hopeful title of "Swenson & Son Electric"). Plus there's Mike Jacobs, a contract garbage hauler who's just joined the board of directors (and already thinks he owns the team). Added to the busload of rookies on this fresh season's team, this "new leadership" on and off the field lets readers enjoy the parallel spectacle of a sports business being constructed - and deconstructed - and finally utterly demolished right before their eyes all in the spirit of boisterous hilarity that has come to characterize minor league baseball at its most fun. -- Provided by publisher
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Investigating the Unliterary: Six Essays on Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes
Richard Utz and Elizabeth Sharpe
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Speaking of Poets 2: More Interviews with Poets Who Write for Children And Young Adults
Jeffery Scott Copeland and Vicky L. Copeland
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Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women
Annie Finch
A collection of more than 40 poems including brief critical statements by each poet and concise critical mini-essays on the poetry of each poet. Finch examines the course of 20th century poetry by American women, exploring the strain of male dominance that submerged more than two generations of women writers. -- Provided by publisher
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Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans
Vince Gotera
The first comprehensive study devoted exclusively to poetry by Vietnam veterans, Radical Visions argues that this body of writing registers an important advance in the aesthetics and poetics of war literature and offers a cogent antiwar statement rooted in personal experience.
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Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans
Vince Gotera
The first comprehensive study devoted exclusively to poetry by Vietnam veterans, Radical Visions argues that this body of writing registers an important advance in the aesthetics and poetics of war literature and offers a cogent antiwar statement rooted in personal experience.
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Speaking of Poets: Interviews with Poets Who Write for Children and Young Adults
Jeffrey S. Copeland
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The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse
Annie Finch
A groundbreaking study of the connections among meter, the poetic unconscious, and wider literary and cultural forces. -- Provided by the publisher
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Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction
Jerome Klinkowitz
If, as the literary theorists of postmodernism contend, “content” does not exist, then how can fiction continue to be written? Jerome Klinkowitz, himself a veteran practitioner and theorist of fiction, addresses this question in Structuring the Void, an account of what today’s novelists and short story writers do when they produce a fictive work. Klinkowitz’s focus is on the way in which writers have turned this lack of content itself into subject matter, and, by thus “structuring the void,” have created a new form of fiction. Among the writers Klinkowitz discusses are Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, Max Apple, Saul Bellow, Erica Jong, Susan Quist, Gerald Rosen, Rob Swigart, and Grace Paley. He shows how, in the absence of subject matter, these writers persist in the act of structuring—by organizing autobiography as a narrative device, ritualizing national history and popular culture, or formalizing a comic response to a new imaginative state, the state of California. Klinkowitz also considers subjects such as gender and war, which, though they cannot be represented, nevertheless exercise constraints on a writer’s intention to structure. What emerges from Klinkowitz’s analysis is a clear sense of what today’s fiction—and fiction writing—is about. As such, Structuring the Void will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in contemporary literature. -- Provided by publisher
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Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition
Jerome Klinkowitz
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents both an appreciation and a comprehensive examination of the life work of this pathbreaking contemporary writer. A blend of close reading, biography, and theory, this retrospective—informed by Klinkowitz’s expert command of postmodern American fiction—contributes significantly to a new understanding of Barthelme’s work. Klinkowitz argues that the central piece in the Barthelme canon, and the key to his artistic method, is his widely acknowledged masterpiece, The Dead Father. In turning to this pivotal work, as well as to Barthelme’s short stories and other novels, Klinkowitz explores the way in which Barthelme reinvented the tools of narration, characterization, and thematics at a time when fictive techniques were largely believed to be exhausted. Klinkowitz, who was one of the first scholars to study Barthelme’s work and became its definitive bibliographer, situates Barthelme’s life and work within a broad spectrum of influences and affinities. A consideration of developments in painting and sculpture, for example, as well as those of contemporaneous fiction, contribute to Klinkowitz’s analysis. This astute reading will provide great insight for readers, writers, and critics of contemporary American fiction seeking explanations and justifications of Barthelme’s critical importance in the literature of our times. -- Provided by publisher
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Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World
Jerome Klinkowitz
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Slaughterhouse-Five, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.--From the publisher.
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The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction
Barbara Lounsberry
The artistry of nonfiction is the great unexplored territory of contemporary criticism. Although the American book clubs now emphasize nonfiction and The New York Times Book Review publishes almost three times as many reviews of nonfiction as fiction, critical appreciation of this work has lagged behind. The Art of Fact is the first comprehensive examination of five of today's most popular and important nonfiction artists: Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee, Joan Didion, and Norman Mailer. By discussing contemporary literary nonfiction in relation to the early prose narrative forms and to the news/novels of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the opening chapter defines the discourse known as literary or artistic nonfiction. Dr. Lounsberry then describes four characteristics of literary nonfiction and grounds these characteristics in contemporary works.
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Literarischer Nominalismus im Spätmittelalter: Eine Untersuchung zu Sprache, Charakterzeichnung und Struktur in Geoffrey Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde
Richard Utz
Innerhalb der philologischen Deutungen von Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde existieren eine Reihe kontrovers diskutierter Problemstände, etwa die proverbiale Redeweise des Pandarus, die Charakterzeichnungen der Criseyde und des Troilus oder die Spannungen zwischen der Haupthandlung und dem sogenannten Epilog. Bisherige methodische Ansätze, die meist auf Beobachtungen früh- und hochmittelalterlicher oder gar antiker Sprach- und Denktheorien basierten, konnten die erkannten Widersprüchlichkeiten keiner befriedigenden Lösung zuführen. Die diagnostizierte Defizienz vor allem allegorisch-exegetischer beziehungsweise boethianischer Erklärungsversuche wird in der vorliegenden Untersuchung durch die Konfrontation des literarischen Werkes mit einer ihm synchronen spätmittelalterlichen Kulturkonstituente, der philosophischen Denkbewegung des Nominalismus, überwunden. Das Einbringen dieser Folie des bestimmenden philosophischen Superstrats des 14. Jahrhunderts erhellt die spezifisch spätmittelalterliche Eigenart von Chaucers Werk. Die genannten Aporien der Forschung hinsichtlich Sprache, Charakterzeichnung und Struktur werden als Ausprägungen eines originellen, literarischen Nominalismus des Dichters erklärbar. -- Provided by publisher
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Their Finest Hours: Narratives of the R.A.F. and Luftwaffe in World War II
Jerome Klinkowitz
From 1940 through the spring of 1945, the skies of England and Europe hosted an aerial combat unique in the history of warfare.--Amazon web site.
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