Cargando…

Shouting Down the Silence : A Biography of Stanley Elkin /

This book presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain. From the publication of his second novel, A Bad Man, in 1967 to his de...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dougherty, David C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000004a 4500
001 musev2_18460
003 MdBmJHUP
005 20230905042003.0
006 m o d
007 cr||||||||nn|n
008 090616s2010 ilu o 00 0 eng d
010 |z  2019718412 
020 |a 9780252091018 
020 |z 9780252035081 
035 |a (OCoLC)708738127 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
100 1 |a Dougherty, David C. 
245 1 0 |a Shouting Down the Silence :   |b A Biography of Stanley Elkin /   |c David C. Dougherty. 
264 1 |a Urbana :  |b University of Illinois Press,  |c [2010] 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2013 
264 4 |c ©[2010] 
300 |a 1 online resource (296 pages). 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Sum of Private Frequencies -- 2. When Stanley Elkin Was a Little Boy: New York and Chicago, 1930-48 -- 3. College, Graduate School, and the Army, 1948-57 -- 4. Family Crises, Graduate School, and a Literary Career, 1957-60 -- 5. Become a Strong Man: St. Louis, Europe, First Base, Full Houses, and the Big Time, 1960-65 -- 6. Convicted of His Character: Kibitzers, A Bad Man, Additions, and Catastrophe, 1965-68 
505 0 |a 7. Strange Displacements of the Ordinary: Recovery and The Dick Gibson Show, 1968-708. BlessÃ?d Form: Novellas, a Sabbatical Year Abroad, and a Death Sentence, 1971-73 -- 9. Making America Look Like America: Hollywood Beckons, a Breakthrough Novel, and a Cane, 1974-77 -- 10. Heaven and Hell, St. Louis and Mexico, the First Crusade, and South America: Life's Greatest Hits and a Major Disappointment, 1978-82 -- 11. Disney World and Alaskan Rabbis: A Masterpiece, a Flop, the Elkin Essay, and More Bad Medical News, 1983-88 
505 0 |a 12. But I Am Getting Ahead of Myself: Back to the Movies, Another Trilogy, More Awards, and the Last Years, 1989-9413. The Stanley Elkin Chair: The Silence Descends, Posthumous Fiction, and Awards -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 
520 |a This book presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain. From the publication of his second novel, A Bad Man, in 1967 to his death in 1995, Elkin was tormented by the desire for both material and artistic success. ;; Elkin's novels were taught in colleges and universities, his fiction received high praise from critics and reviewers (two of his novels won National Book Critics Circle Awards), and his short stories were widely anthologized--and yet he was unable to achieve renown beyond the avant-garde, or to escape the stigma of being an "academic writer." He wanted to be Faulkner, but he had trouble being Elkin.;; Drawing on personal interviews and an intimate knowledge of Elkin's life and works, David C. Dougherty captures Elkin's early life as well as his later career at Washington University in St. Louis. A frequent participant at the annual Bread Loaf Writers' conference, he was the friend--and sometime antagonist--of other important writers, particularly Saul Bellow, William Gass, Howard Nemerov, and Robert Coover. This book details the ambition, the success, the friction, and the foibles of a writer who won fame, but not the fame he wanted. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
600 1 7 |a Elkin, Stanley,  |d 1930-1995.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00049670 
600 1 0 |a Elkin, Stanley,  |d 1930-1995. 
650 7 |a Authors, American.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00821764 
650 7 |a LITERARY CRITICISM  |x American  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY  |x Literary.  |2 bisacsh 
650 6 |a Écrivains americains  |y 20e siecle  |v Biographies. 
650 0 |a Authors, American  |y 20th century  |v Biography. 
655 7 |a Biographies.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/18460/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection 
945 |a Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement 
945 |a Project MUSE - Archive Literature Supplement