Graeme Wend-Walker: Russell Hoban

Cover: 9781476682822 | Russell Hoban | Faithful to the Strange | Graeme Wend-Walker | Buch

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Beschreibung

Spanning more than half a century, Russell Hoban's celebrated literary career won him critical accolades and legions of admirers across multiple genres. Many know him from the groundbreaking masterpiece Riddley Walker, with its twelve-year-old protagonist contemplating "what the idear of us myt be" from amidst the ruins of civilization. Others know Hoban from the genre-defying The Mouse and His Child or from idiosyncratic novels of floundering Londoners. Still others fondly recall Frances the Badger's refusal to go to bed, or share Emmet Otter with their children at Christmas.
This book, the first consideration of Russell Hoban's literary career as a whole, explores what binds these seemingly disparate works together. Discovering unexpected patterns between books written from what one character describes as a perpetual "state of surprise," this critical study also draws on Hoban's biography, from his formation as an artist under the influence of jazz in New York to the upheaval of his self-reinvention as a writer, as it offers its own reflection on what the idea of Russell Hoban might be.

Über den Autor

Graeme Wend-Walker is a professor of English literature at Texas State University in San Marcos.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Beginning of a Pomegranate

One. "Fidelity is what's wanted"

Two. "Alive in some kind of way"

Three. "Don't tell me you've been on the beach all this time"

Four. "Books in nameless categories"

Five. Keaton, Schumann, and Coleman Won't Explain the Omelette

Six. Dialectics of Encounter and Vulnerability

Seven. "Art isn't meant to solve problems, is it"

Eight. "There aint nothing what aint a tel"

Nine. "Any special field of attention"

Ten. Unfashionable Mysteries, Spiritual Mirages, and Metaphysical Illusions

Eleven. "Jazz acrobats"

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781476682822
ISBN-10:	1476682828
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wend-Walker, Graeme
Hersteller:	McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Graeme Wend-Walker
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2025
Gewicht:	0,368 kg