Experimentation And Versatility: The Early Novels And Short Fiction Of Fred Chappell - Couverture rigide

Clabough, Casey Howard

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ISBN 10 : 0865549451 ISBN 13 : 9780865549456

Editeur : Mercer University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Experimentation and Versatility considers Chappell's first four novels and his short fiction-the novels chronologically and the short stories thematically-in order to demonstrate the unique range and importance of his fictional prose. Rather than inserting Chappell's fictional variables into a single theoretical formula, Clabough traces and celebrates their various and multifaceted excursions into genres as disparate as Appalachian pastoralism and experimental science fiction. Containing both an interview with Chappell and a previously unpublished short story, Experimentation and Versatility also offers new primary sources on Chappell's work, even as it contextualizes him as one of our most exciting and multi-talented contemporary writers. Investigating the complexities of Chappell's work, Clabough's study offers new ways of considering Chappell, who has been characterized variously as a Appalachian, Southern, and fantasy writer. However, as Clabough demonstrates, he is, in fact, all and none of these things-a writer of immense gifts constantly reinventing himself through his experiments in seemingly disparate genres.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Casey Clabough is an associate professor of English at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia. He serves as the literature editor for the Encyclopedia Virginia, a project of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He lives in Appomattox.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mercer University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0865549451
• ISBN 13: 9780865549456
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 194
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• Personne responsable: non disponible