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Moore, Steven

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1953409040 ISBN 13 : 9781953409041

Editeur : Zerogram Press, 2021

Synopsis

Before he embarked on his massive history of the novel, Steven Moore was best known as a tireless promoter of innovative fiction, mostly by way of hundreds of book reviews published from the late 1970s onward. Virtually all have been gathered for this collection, which offers a panoramic view of modern fiction, ranging from well-known authors like Barth and Pynchon to lesser-known but deserving ones, many published by small presses. Moore also reviews dozens of critical studies of this fiction, and takes some side trips into rock music and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The second half of the book reprints Moore's best essays. Several deal with novelist William Gaddis on whom Moore is considered the leading authority and other writers associated with him (Chandler Brossard, Alan Ansen, David Markson, Sheri Martinelli). Others champion such writers as Alexander Theroux, Brigid Brophy, Edward Dahlberg, Carole Maso, W. M. Spackman, and Rikki Ducornet. Two essays deal with the late David Foster Wallace, whom Moore knew, and others treat such matters as book reviewing, postmodernism, the Beat movement, maximalism, gay literature, punctuation, nympholepsy, and the history of the novel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Steven Moore (PhD Rutgers, 1988) is the author of a two-volume survey of world literature entitled The Novel: An Alternative History, the second volume of which won the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship. He has also written extensively on modern literature, and for years was managing editor of Dalkey Archive Press/Review of Contemporary Fiction. His newest book, Alexander Theroux: A Fan's Notes, was also published by Zerogram Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zerogram Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1953409040
• ISBN 13: 9781953409041
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 800
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible