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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coffman, Christopher K., editor.

Lukes, Daniel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vollmann, William T--Criticism and interpretation.

Vollmann, William T.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : University Of Delaware Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>This book is the first collection of essays on the works of William T. Vollmann. It offers a comprehensive overview of his writings through scholarly essays and nonscholarly reflections that assess his oeuvre</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> </span><span>in terms of four conceptual categories: social, historical, political, and methodological. Taken together, these pieces place Vollmann among his peers in contemporary North American literature and open up new avenues for readers to negotiate the many challenges and rewards his texts present. </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Lonely Atoms; I: Engaging People, Space, and Place; 1 Egalitarian Longings: The Problem with Pity and the Search for Equality in Poor People; The World According to William T. Vollmann; 2 The Poetics and Politics of Zoning, Mythography, and Mestizo Space in Imperial; Vollmann in Russia: On Poor People; 3 William T. Vollmann's Search for Truth and Community in Participative Research; Palm Trees; II: Engaging Narratives:History, Historiography, Ethics; 4 Vollmann's Argall-Text: Neo-Elizabethan Form and the Literalist Past in Seven Dreams

Vollmann between the CoversChapter Five: Writing Europe: Death, History, and the Intersecting Intellectual Worlds of William T. Vollmann and Danilo Kiš; 6 Kurt Gerstein and the Tragic Parable of "Clean Hands"; Reading Rising Up and Rising Down; 7 The New Universalism and William T. Vollmann's Rising Up and Rising Down; III: Power, Sex, Politics; 8 Our Oriental Heritage: Seeking the Postcolonial Postmodern in William T. Vollmann's You Bright and Risen Angels; Piss Lime Vitriol; Chapter Nine: William T. Vollmann's Paradigms of Power; The Shattered Object

10 "Strange Hungers": William T. Vollmann's Literary Performances of Abject MasculinityA Friendship; IV: Methods and Mores: Texts, Paratexts, Aesthetics; William T. Vollmann; 11 Imperial Photography; Against All Loss; 12 The Ethics of the Archive and the William T. Vollmann Collection; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61149-730-2

1-61149-525-3

1-61149-511-3

OCLC:

898769307