Steven Moore

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• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of reviews and essays on the 20th century's most important innovative fiction writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zerogram Press
• Seitenzahl: 760
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 723g
• ISBN-13: 9781557134370
• ISBN-10: 1557134375
• Artikelnr.: 46456341

Autorenporträt

Steven Moore: Steven Moore (PhD Rutgers, 1988) is the author/editor of several books on William Gaddis, as well as of The Novel: An Alternative History (2010, 2013), the second volume of which won the Christian Gauss Award for literary criticism. From 1988 to 1996 he was managing editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction / Dalkey Archive Press, and since 2001 he has lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Reviews
Héctor Abad
Avant-Pop Fiction
Félix de Azua
Nicholson Baker
Nicola Barker
Djuna Barnes
John Barth
Donald Barthelme
Jonathan Baumbach
Anne Beattie
The Beats and Their Critics
Saul Bellow
Brooke Bergan
R. M. Berry
Francesca Lia Block
Roberto Bolaño
Greg Boyd
Richard Brautigan
Anthony Burgess
Gabrielle Burton
Michel Butor
Mary Butts
Roberto Calasso
Julieta Campos
Mary Caponegro
Tom Carson
Cydney Chadwick
John Colapinto
Jeffery Conway, Lynn Crosbie, and David Trinidad
Martha Cooley
Robert Coover
Stanley G. Crawford
Cyberpunk Fiction
Susan Daitch
Mark Z. Danielewski
Dame Darcy
Guy Davenport, Robert Kelly, and Pamela Zoline
Samuel R. Delany
Don DeLillo
Helen DeWitt
Stephen Dixon
Rikki Ducornet
Marguerite Duras
Lawrence Durrell
Lucinda Ebersole
Janice Eidus
Stanley Elkin
Percival Everett
Ronald Firbank and Alan Hollinghurst
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Richard Ford
James Frey
William Gaddis
William H. Gass
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Hervé Guibert
Elizabeth Hand
Donald Harington
Joseph Heller
Andrew Holleran
Michel Houellebecq
Robert Irwin
Henry James
Charles Johnson
Camden Joy
James Joyce
Norma Kassirer
Ken Kesey
Ivan Klíma
Reif Larsen
Brad Leithauser
Antonio Lobo Antunes
Malcolm Lowry
Norman Mailer
Yann Martel
Carole Maso
Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, and Oulipo
James McCourt
Joseph McElroy
Jim Morrison
Mo Yan
Bradford Morrow
Haruki Murakami
Ana's Nin and Pornography
Lawrence Norfolk
Joyce Carol Oates
David Peace
Ezra Pound
Dawn Powell
Richard Powers
Caroline Preston
Thomas Pynchon
Raymond Queneau
Pascal Quignard
Marie Redonnet
Julián Ráos
Raymond Roussel
Severo Sarduy
Arno Schmidt
John A. Scott
Will Self
Lee Siegel
Elizabeth Smart
Ilan Stavans
Gilbert Sorrentino
Edla van Steen
D. N. Stuefloten
Alexander Theroux
Hunter S. Thompson
Steve Tomasula
Frederic Tuten
John Updike
William T. Vollmann
Marek Waldorf
David Foster Wallace
Paul West
Robin Williamson
Jeanette Winterson
P. G. Wodehouse
Richard Wright
Stephen Wright
Rudolph Wurlitzer
Marguerite Young
Miscellaneous Nonfiction
Jerome Klinkowitz, The Self-Apparent Word and Literary Subversions
Tom LeClair and Larry McCaffery, eds., Anything Can Happen
James M. Mellard, The Exploded Form
Michael Stephens, The Dramaturgy of Style
Tom LeClair, The Art of Excess, and John Kuehl, Alternate Worlds
Writers in Conversation
Joseph Dewey, In a Dark Time
Brian McHale, Constructing Postmodernism
Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage
David Bergman, ed., Camp Grounds
Kevin Kopelson, Love's Litany, and Claude J. Summers, ed., The Gay and
Lesbian Literary Heritage
Jan Bondeson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
Jerome Klinkowitz, Keeping Literary Company, and Richard Elman,
Namedropping
Alice Fulton, Feeling as a Foreign Language
Anne Roiphe, To Rabbit, with Love and Squalor, and Denis Donoghue, Words
Alone
Layers of Slayage: Buffy as Text
Frederick R. Karl, American Fictions, 1980-2000
Thomas Dumm, Loneliness as a Way of Life
Rob Chapman, Psychedelia and Other Colours
Essays
Part 1: William Gaddis and Friends
Chronological Difficulties in the Novels of William Gaddis
"Parallel, Not Series": Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis
Peer Gynt and The Recognitions
Chandler Brossard: Bold Saboteur
The Legend of Alan Ansen
David Markson and the Art of Allusion
Jack Green and Book Reviewing in America
Sheri Martinelli: A Modernist Muse
William Gaddis: Three Memorials
Remembering Mr. Gaddis
The Recognitions, Then and Now
William Gaddis: The Nobility of Failure
Part 2: Significant Others
Five Notes on Finnegans Wake
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Poor Man's Remembrance of Things Past
Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat and the Tradition of Learned Wit
Edward Dahlberg: An Introduction
Alexander Theroux: An Introduction
The Plays of Ronald Firbank
Brigid Brophy: A Brief Introduction
The Stylish Fiction of W. M. Spackman
A New Language for Desire: Carole Maso's Aureole
Paper Flowers: Richard Brautigan's Poetry
The First Draft Version of Infinite Jest
In Memoriam David Foster Wallace
Of Cause and Consequence
Beowulf and Postmodernism
Maximalism Down Argentine Way: Adam Buenosayres
Part 3: Personal Matters
Nympholepsy
Rethinking the History of the Novel
Publishing Rikki Ducornet
Index