Author: Stanley Elkin
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1941040381
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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With a wickedly witty touch, Elkin’s essays takes readers on a tour of American life in the 20th century. Stanley Elkin was one of our great American writers. “A divine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language,” as John Irving put it, and nowhere is that more clear than this collection of essays, which find Elkin wresting hilarity and heartbreak from the most unlikely of sources.
Author: David C Dougherty
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Shouting Down the Silence presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain. From the publication of his second novel, A Bad Man, in 1967 to his death in 1995, Elkin was tormented by the desire for both material and artistic success. Elkin's novels were taught in colleges and universities, his fiction received high praise from critics and reviewers (two of his novels won National Book Critics Circle Awards), and his short stories were widely anthologized--and yet he was unable to achieve renown beyond the avant-garde, or to escape the stigma of being an "academic writer." He wanted to be Faulkner, but he had trouble being Elkin. Drawing on personal interviews and an intimate knowledge of Elkins's life and works, David C. Dougherty captures Elkin's early life as the son of a charismatic, intimidating, and remarkably successful Jewish immigrant from Russia, as well as his later career at Washington University in St. Louis. A frequent participant at the annual Bread Loaf Writers' conference, he was the friend--and sometime antagonist--of other important writers, particularly Saul Bellow, William Gass, Howard Nemerov, and Robert Coover. Despite failed attempts to bridge the gap from his academic post to wide popular success, Elkin continued to write essays, stories, and novels that garnered unerring praise. His was a classic dilemma of an intellectual aesthete loath to make use of the common devices of popular appeal. The book details the ambition, the success, the friction, and the foibles of a writer who won fame, but not the fame he wanted.
Author: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674969448
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg’s shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or something more?
Author: Ernest Rhys
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752332816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Reproduction of the original: Huxley's Essays by Ernest Rhys
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108040578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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A nine-volume collection of essays and lectures published in 1893-4 by one of Victorian England's most influential biologists.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368352601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Reproduction of the original.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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