Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page

Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page
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Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages : 423
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ISBN-10 : 9781564788429
ISBN-13 : 1564788423
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Book Synopsis Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page by : Stephane Vanderhaeghe

Download or read book Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page written by Stephane Vanderhaeghe and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page is an unconventional study of Robert Coover's work from his early masterpiece The Origin of the Brunists (1966) to the recent Noir (2010). Written in the second person, it offers a self-reflexive investigation into the ways in which Coover's stories often challenge the reader to resist the conventions of sense-making and even literary criticism. By portraying characters lost in surroundings they often fail to grasp, Coover's work playfully enacts a "(melo)drama of cognition" that mirrors the reader's own desire to interpret and make sense of texts in unequivocal ways. This tendency in Coover's writing is indicative of a larger refusal of the ready-made, of the once-and-for-all or the authoritative, celebrating instead, in its generosity, the widening of possibilities—thus inevitably forcing the reader-critic to acknowledge the arbitrariness and artificiality of her responses.


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