| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 385 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On John Cheever: "something went terribly wrong" / Robert A. Morace -- Biography of John Cheever / Francis J. Bosha -- The Paris review perspective / J.D. Mitchell for The Paris review -- Cheever through the lens of language: bridges of entanglement and bewilderment / Samuel Chase Coale -- Portents of the abyss: Cheever's suburban fiction in historical context / Robert Beuka -- Updike, Cheever, and short fiction / James A. Schiff -- John Cheever: critical reception / Francis J. Bosha -- From subject to object and back again: individual identity in John Cheever's fiction / Robert G. Collins -- John Cheever's surreal vision and the bridge of language / Wayne Stengel -- John Cheever: suburban romancer / Samuel Chase Coale -- Supermarket and superhighway: John Cheever's America / Scott Donaldson -- From parallels to paradise: the lyrical structure of Cheever's fiction / Robert A. Morace -- Writing the Cheever / Scott Donaldson -- John Cheever's contingent imagination / Daniel T. O'Hara -- The facts in black and white: Cheever's Falconer, Wideman's Philadelphia fire Robert A. Morace -- What we keep: time and balance in the brother stories of John Cheever / David Raney -- John Cheever and the management of Middlebrow misery / Timothy Aubry -- A farewell to goodbyes: reconciling the past in Cheever's "Goodbye, my brother" / Peter Mathews -- John Cheever's Bullet Park: the suburbs were never more unreal / Anis Shivani. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This collection provides broad coverage of John Cheever and his work. Original essays discuss the basic facts of Cheever's life and critical reputation. It also explores his complicated personal life and discusses his decorous style and fragmented structure, and his fascination with language. |
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Cheever, John -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Cheever, John.
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Cheever, John. (OCoLC)fst00028512
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Cheever, John. (DE-588c)4243326-5.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Morace, Robert A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: John Cheever. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2012 9781587658273 (DLC) 2011019020 (OCoLC)726150216 |
| ISBN |
9781587658808 (electronic bk.) |
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1587658801 (electronic bk.) |
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