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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793279303321

Autore

Deutsch David (Professor of English)

Titolo

Understanding Jim Grimsley / / David Deutsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-61117-930-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 pages)

Collana

Understanding contemporary American literature

Classificazione

LIT004160

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Understanding Jim Grimsley -- The Tote-Crell Narratives -- Dream Boy -- Cities and Suburbs -- Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Understanding Jim Grimsley, David Deutsch offers the first book-length study of Grimsley's diverse work and argues for his vital role in shaping the contemporary queer American literary scene. Deutsch helps readers navigate the intricacies of Grimsley's influential drama, fiction, and fantasy science fiction--including his most popular novel, Dream Boy--by weaving together discussions of common themes. Placing Grimsley's plays, novels, and short stories in conversation with one another, Deutsch reveals Grimsley's development throughout a career in which he has investigated hope and hardship, youth and maturity, experimentation and convention. Deutsch also provides vital historical and cultural contexts for understanding how Grimsley engages, expands, and challenges literary and theatrical traditions"--

"Since the early 1980's, Jim Grimsley has received increasing acclaim for his achievements in a variety of dramatic and literary genres. Through his novels, plays, and short stories, Grimsley portrays an unrelenting search for happiness and interrogates themes of corruption, technology, poverty, domestic abuse, sexuality, and faith in the contemporary United States. Through unique characters and a multitude of forms, the award-winning author explores the complexities of southern culture, his own troubled childhood, and larger pieces of the human experience.  In Understanding Jim Grimsley,



David Deutsch offers the first book-length study of Grimsley's diverse work and argues for his vital role in shaping the contemporary queer American literary scene. Deutsch helps readers navigate the intricacies of Grimsley's influential drama, fiction, and fantasy science fiction -- including his most popular novel, Dream Boy -- by weaving together discussions of common themes. Placing Grimsley's plays, novels, and short stories in conversation with one another, Deutsch reveals Grimsley's development throughout a career in which he has investigated hope and hardship, youth and maturity, experimentation and convention. Deutsch also provides vital historical and cultural contexts for understanding how Grimsley engages, expands, and challenges literary and theatrical traditions.  Deutsch demonstrates a deep, critical understanding of Grimsley's hard-earned, pragmatic optimism. Intertwining Grimsley's major fiction and plays and contextualizing these within a broader American landscape, this volume brings his work more completely into the conversation on southern queer literature."--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790646803321

Autore

Coupe Laurence <1950->

Titolo

Kenneth Burke on myth : an introduction / / Laurence Coupe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-34907-X

0-203-95287-1

1-135-34900-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Theorists of myth

Classificazione

73.56

Disciplina

201/.3/092

Soggetti

Myth - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Myth and Society; 2. Myth and Literary Criticism; 3. Myth and ""Ritual Drama""; 4. Myth and ""Victimage""; 5. Myth and Ecology; Conclusion;



Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Kenneth Burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary form. He did not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor was he reducible to any simple set of principles or ideas. He published widely, and is probably best known for two of his classic works, A Rhetoric of Motive and Philosophy of Literary Form. His observations on myth, however, were never systematic, and much of his writing on literary theory and other topics cannot be fully understood without fleshing out his thoug

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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004353836007536

Titolo

Novellieri inglesi e americani : panorama della letteratura novellistica inglese e americana / a cura di Maria Martone e Edoardo Bizzarri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : De Carlo, 1944

Descrizione fisica

898 p., [34] carte di tav. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

Enciclopedia della novella

Altri autori (Persone)

Martone, Maria

Bizzarri, Edoardo

Disciplina

813

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Le traduzioni contenute nel presente volume sono dovute a Maria Martone per la parte americana e ad Edoardo Bizzarri per la parte inglese.