Search "Richard Kostelanetz"
|
|
Richard Kostelanetz | |
|
About 30 pages (8,852 words) in 15 products |
|
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
 Richard Kostelanetz Information
1,013 words, approx. 3 pages
 Richard (Cory) Kostelanetz (14 May, 1940, New York City) is a prolific American artist, author and critic. He was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the composer Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. from Brown University and an... 
 summary from source:
 CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Toward a critical understanding of Richard Kostelanetz's single-sentence stories.
06/22/1994: 3,343 words, approx. 11 pages Richard Kostelanetz's single-sentence stories are a form of literary aphorism. He invented Skeletal Stories, or Sketchy Stories, which consist of words with large spaces instead of connecting phrases. This invites the readers to add in their own imagination to the narrative, and the style... summary from source:
The Washington Post Blast From the Past; Kostelanetz's 50-Year-Old Musical Time Capsule
03/03/1988: 655 words, approx. 2 pages A musical and epistolary message from the past, sealed in a small time capsule for half a century, is being made public today by the Library of Congress. The material includes previously unknown recordings of two American classics and a letter "to the People...
 Literary Criticism
summary from source:
 Critical Essay by Thomas Powers
1,723 words, approx. 6 pages
After a solid week of reading Richard Kostelanetz's long book about literary politicking [The End of Intelligent Writing], I got a bright idea of how to proceed with this review: I would start by describing "the New York literary mob," the familiar oracles of Commentary and The New York Review of Books. I would list (per Kostelanetz) their alleged abuses of literary power—log-rolling, back-scratching, puffing, touting, "white-collar mugging." Then I would consider w... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John W. Aldridge
1,269 words, approx. 4 pages
There are several remarkable features of Mr. Kostelanetz's discussion [in The End of Intelligent Writing], one of which is that he should find the situation he describes so terribly shocking. However vigorously we may deplore the fact, it is simply in the nature of literary groups in all times and places that they will protect and promote their own and, with one degree or another of malevolent calculation, will exclude or ignore those who are not their own. This may not be a desirable state of affair... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Charles Molesworth
1,121 words, approx. 4 pages
What a sour book [The End of Intelligent Writing] is—no allowance made for its "heroic" attack on entrenched elites, or its wide-eyed support of the new and the young, or its implacable earnestness will alter this central fact, and the reader will leave it frazzled and stale…. Granted that paranoia and apocalypse currently serve to authenticate artistic believeability, Kostelanetz' network of sinister, aging moguls … are hard to recognize in their desperate power ga...
|
Richard Kostelanetz | |
|
About 30 pages (8,852 words) in 15 products |
|
|
