
Review of Contemporary Fiction
Stanley Elkin/Alasdair Gray
Dalkey Archive Press
Will be published approx. on 15. July 2010
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Paperback/Softback
242 pages
978-1-56478-128-4 (ISBN)
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Arthur M. Saltzman, Stanley Elkin: An Introduction/Peter J. Bailey, 'A Hat Where There Never Was a Hat': Stanley Elkin's Fifteenth Interview/Stanley Elkin, Words and Music/William Gass, Stanley Elkin: An Anecdote/Jerome Charyn, On Stanley Elkin/Jerome Klinkowitz, Elkin before Elkin/Charles Molesworth, Stanley Elkin and 'Everything': The Problem of Surfaces and Fullness in the Novels/Alan Wilde, Final Things: More Letters to mzimmer%humanitas@hub.ucsb.edu/D. C. Dougherty, Nemeses and MacGuffins: Paranoia as Focal Metaphor in Stanley Elkin, Joseph Heller, and Thomas Pynchon/Peter G. Christensen, The Escape from the Curse of History in Stanley Elkin's George Mills/Patrick O'Donnell, Of Red Herrings and Loose Ends: Reading 'Politics' in Elkin's The MacGuffin/Arthur M. Saltzman, A Stanley Elkin Checklist/Mark Axelrod, Alasdair Gray: An Introduction, of Sorts/Mark Axelrod, An Epistolary Interview, Mostly with Alasdair Gray/Alasdair Gray, The Anthology of Prefaces/Alasdair Gray, Time Travel/Philip Hobsbaum, Alasdair Gray: The Voice of His ProseGeorge Donaldson and Alison Lee, Is Eating People Really Wrong? Dining with Alasdair Gray/William M.Harrison, The Power of Work in the Novels of Alasdair Gray/Stephen Bernstein, Scottish Enough: The London Novels of Alasdair Gray/John C. Hawley, Bell, Book, and Candle: Poor Things and the Exorcism of Victorian Sentiment/Lynne Diamond-Nigh, Gray's Anatomy: When Words and Images Collide/Peter Christensen, Language and Its Discontents in Alasdair Gray's 'Logopandocy'/Janice Galloway, Different Oracles: Me and Alasdair Gray/Mark Axelrod, An Alasdair Gray Checklist
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Edition
1995, Summer ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
373 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-128-4 (9781564781284)
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JOHN O'BRIEN also is the author and illustrator of Mother Hubbard's Christmas, which Booklist calls "a yuk-filled read-aloud." He lives in Delran, New Jersey. Steven Moore earned his Ph.D. at Rutgers University. He is a noted William Gaddis scholar and wrote "William Gaddis", the first comprehensive critical guide to his work, and "A Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's The Recognitions". Moore has edited a number of books, including "Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967" and "In Recognition of William Gaddis". He has also contributed essays, articles, and reviews to a number of newspapers, journals, and magazines. Robert L. McLaughlin, a professor of English at Illinois State University, received his Ph.D. from Fordham University in 1987 with a dissertation on Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. He has published articles in a variety of journals, and, in 1993, he became managing editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction. Brooke Horvath is a professor of English at Kent State University and a poet and critic.