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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814810503321

Autore

Barthelme Helen Moore <1927->

Titolo

Donald Barthelme : the genesis of a cool sound / / Helen Moore Barthelme

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2001

ISBN

1-299-13793-8

1-60344-670-2

1-58544-903-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; ; no. 13

Disciplina

813/.54

B

Soggetti

Experimental fiction, American - History and criticism

Authors, American - 20th century

Postmodernism (Literature) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- First Encounter -- Never Suffer Fools -- A Draftee Searching for a "Cool Sound" -- Then Wear the Gold Hat -- Discovery of Godot -- Life with a Literary Genius -- Forum Working in a Vacuum -- The Creation of a Strange Object -- The Writing of Come Back, Dr. Caligari -- Contemporary Arts Museum -- CAA and the New -- The Promise of New York -- New York at Last -- Loss and Possibility -- A New Life Begins for Don -- Casting Chrysanthemums on His Grave -- Don Enters My Life Again -- The Final Years and The King -- Notes -- Index.