Critical Essay by Walker Percy
[Persuaded by John Kennedy Toole's mother to read the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces, Walker Percy comments in his foreword to the novel:] I read on. And ...
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Critical Essay by Brad Owens
[The protagonist of "A Confederacy of Dunces"] is the quin-tessential pessimist who is continually offended by a world ill-equipped to recognize his genius&...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Goodwin
[A Confederacy of Dunces] is a corker. It is a gross farce, a blustering satire, an epic comedy, a rumbling, roaring avalanche of a book that begins with a solitary ...
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Critical Essay by Alan Friedman
There are readers—and I am one—who keep calm in the face of the stormiest comic novels. Wit, farce, satire, nonsense: I may be vastly tickled, but I do n...
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Critical Essay by Monroe K. Spears
Noting that [A Confederacy of Dunces] was resurrected long after the author's death and published by a university press, the reader may well approach it with...
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Critical Essay by Richard Brown
All but the most dedicated admirers of comic fantasy will be made wary by their first impressions of A Confederacy of Dunces. Its paranoid title, adapted from Swift, p...
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Teaching A Confederacy of Dunces
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The Army Corps of Engineers closed a gate on a suburban canal as heavy rains lashed the flood-prone city, raising fears that climbing waters threatened to top the walls holding them back.After more...
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Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or ...
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Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or ...
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Critical Essay by Walker Percy
Flooding leads to closing of N.O. canal
