William T. Vollmann : a critical companion /

This book is the first collection of essays on the works of William T. Vollmann. It offers a comprehensive overview of his writings through scholarly essays and nonscholarly reflections that assess his oeuvre in terms of four conceptual categories: social, historical, political, and methodological....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Coffman, Christopher K., Lukes, Daniel, Bauer, Georg, Bolte, Carla, Chandler, Aaron, Corcoran, Heather, Cox, John K., 1964-, Elliott, Okla, Franco, James, Franzen, Jonathan, Glawogger, Michael, 1959-2014, Gusev, Mariya, Jensen, Joshua, Juvelis, Priscilla, Liebtag, Miles, McCaffery, Larry, 1946-, Palleau-Papin, Françoise, Petro, Melissa, Rothacker, Jordan A., Santin, Bryan, Smith, Geoffrey D. (Geoffrey Dayton), 1948-, Speaker, Mary Austin, 1977-, Walonen, Michael K., 1979-, Wisner, Buell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2014]
Temas:
Vollmann, William T. > Criticism and interpretation.
Vollmann, William T.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Lonely Atoms; I: Engaging People, Space, and Place; 1 Egalitarian Longings: The Problem with Pity and the Search for Equality in Poor People; The World According to William T. Vollmann; 2 The Poetics and Politics of Zoning, Mythography, and Mestizo Space in Imperial; Vollmann in Russia: On Poor People; 3 William T. Vollmann's Search for Truth and Community in Participative Research; Palm Trees; II: Engaging Narratives:History, Historiography, Ethics; 4 Vollmann's Argall-Text: Neo-Elizabethan Form and the Literalist Past in Seven Dreams.
  • Vollmann between the CoversChapter Five: Writing Europe: Death, History, and the Intersecting Intellectual Worlds of William T. Vollmann and Danilo Kiš; 6 Kurt Gerstein and the Tragic Parable of "Clean Hands"; Reading Rising Up and Rising Down; 7 The New Universalism and William T. Vollmann's Rising Up and Rising Down; III: Power, Sex, Politics; 8 Our Oriental Heritage: Seeking the Postcolonial Postmodern in William T. Vollmann's You Bright and Risen Angels; Piss Lime Vitriol; Chapter Nine: William T. Vollmann's Paradigms of Power; The Shattered Object.
  • 10 "Strange Hungers": William T. Vollmann's Literary Performances of Abject MasculinityA Friendship; IV: Methods and Mores: Texts, Paratexts, Aesthetics; William T. Vollmann; 11 Imperial Photography; Against All Loss; 12 The Ethics of the Archive and the William T. Vollmann Collection; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors.

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