William T. Vollmann : a critical companion / edited by Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes.

Other author Coffman, Christopher K. editor.
Other author Lukes, Daniel, editor.
Format Book
PublicationNewark : University Of Delaware Press, 2015.
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionxvi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24cm
Subjects
Vollmann, William T.--Criticism and interpretation.

Contents Pt. I. Engaging People, Space, and Place -- Egalitarian Longings: The Problem with Pity and the Search for Equality in Poor People / Aaron D. Chandler -- The World According to William T. Vollmann / Heather Corcoran -- The Poetics and Politics of Zoning, Mythography, and Mestizo Space in Imperial / Michael K. Walonen -- Vollmann in Russia: On Poor People / Mariya Gusev -- William T. Vollmann 's Search for Truth and Community in Participative Research / Georg Bauer -- Palm Trees / Michael Glawogger -- Pt. II. Engaging Narratives: History, Historiography, Ethics -- Vollmann's Argall-Text: Neo-Elizabethan Form and the Literalist Past in Seven Dreams / Buell Wisner -- Vollmann between the Covers / Carla Bolte -- Writing Europe: Death, History, and the Intersecting Intellectual Worlds of William T. Vollmann and Danilo Kis / John K. Cox -- Kurt Gerstein and the Tragic Parable of "Clean Hands": The Imaginative Role of Fiction in the Moral Calculus of William T. Vollmann / Bryan M Santin -- Reading Rising Up and Rising Down / James Franco -- The New Universalism and William T. Vollmann's Rising Up and Rising Down / Okla Elliott -- Pt. III. Power, Sex, Politics -- Our Oriental Heritage: Seeking the Postcolonial Postmodern in William T. Vollmann' s You Bright and Risen Angels / Miles Liebtag -- Piss Lime Vitriol / Jordan A. Rothacker -- William T. Vollmann's Paradigms of Power / Joshua C. Jensen -- The Shattered Object: On Representation versus Self-Representation and Becoming Whole / Melissa Petro -- "Strange Hungers": William T. Vollmann's Literary Performances of Abject Masculinity / Daniel Lukes -- A Friendship / Jonathan Franzen -- Pt. IV. Methods and Mores: Texts, Paratexts, Aesthetics -- William T. Vollmann: Artist's Books / Priscilla Juvelis -- Imperial Photography / Francoise Palleau-Papin -- Against All Loss: On Kissing the Mask / Mary Austin Speaker -- The Ethics of the Archive and the William T. Vollmann Collection / Geoffrey D. Smith -- Afterword: Beyond the book: William T. Vollmann's end matter (Appendices, Glossaries, and extra texts) / Michael Hemmingson.
Abstract The essays in this collection make a case for regarding William T. Vollmann as the most ambitious, productive, and important living author in the US. His oeuvre not only includes outstanding work in numerous literary genres, but also global reportage, ethical treatises, paintings, photographs, and many other productions. His reputation as a daring traveler and his fascination with life on the margins have earned him an extra-literary renown unequaled in our time. Perhaps most importantly, his work is exceptional in relation to the literary moment. Vollmann is a member of a group of authors who are responding to the skeptical ironies of postmodernism with a reinvigoration of fiction's affective possibilities and moral sensibilities, but he stands out even among this cohort for his prioritization of moral engagement, historical awareness, and geopolitical scope.--Provided by publisher
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2014023780
ISBN9781611495102 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1611495105 (cloth : alk. paper)

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