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About 282 pages (84,530 words) in 41 products |
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Robert (Lowell) Coover | | Variant Name: |
Robert Lowell Coover, Robert (Lowell) Coover | | Birth Date: |
February 4, 1932 | | Place of Birth: |
Charles City, Iowa, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of Robert (Lowell) Coover
11,215 words, approx. 37 pages
 Even before the publication of The Public Burning (1977) made him famous, Robert Coover had already achieved a solid reputation, mostly among academics and college audiences, as one of the most original and versatile prose stylists in America. In his... summary from source:
Biography of Robert (Lowell) Coover
8,483 words, approx. 28 pages
Robert Coover is one of America's most distinguished writers. His eminence is to be measured not by the size of his current readership, which remains select, but in terms of the technical resourcefulness that has enabled him to produce a series of... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Robert Coover Information
586 words, approx. 2 pages
 Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended...
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 The Modern Language Review Robert Coover: the metaphysics of bondage.
10/01/2003: 8,619 words, approx. 29 pages The author examines Robert Coover's use of the grotesque and scenes of bondage to portray the metaphysical in his novels and short stories. Robert Coover has been a conspicuous and highly productive American writer For more than a generation, though he is not... summary from source:
The Washington Post Robert Coover's Flickering Images
03/01/1987: 889 words, approx. 3 pagesA NIGHT AT THE MOVIES Or, You Must Remember This By Robert Coover Linden/Simon and Schuster. 187 pp. $16.95 IN "The Phantom of the Movie Palace," the first and most telling piece in Robert Coover's new collection of short fictions, a projectionist wanders through...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Judith Seaboyer
9,344 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Seaboyer locates Pinocchio in Venice within a tradition of literary works about Venice and examines the novel's intertextual references and philosophical discourse, including allusions to Dante Alighieri, James Joyce, and Carlo Collodi, as they relate to the theme of metamorphosis, Menippean satire, and the Bakhtinian concept of carnival.
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Critical Essay by Kathryn Hume
8,600 words, approx. 29 pages
Hume is an American educator and critic. In the following excerpt, she defends Coover against charges of pitilessness and sadism, and argues that Coover's fiction demonstrates the interconnected nature of "the naked," symbolizing human inadequacy, and "the mythic," through which characters attempt to overcome this sense of impotence. Focusing on the novels The Origin of the Brunists, The Universal Baseball Association, and The Public Burning, Hume also traces parallels be... summary from source:
Janusz Semrau
8,517 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following excerpt, Semrau cites The Origin of the Brunists, The Public Burning, and The Universal Baseball Association as examples of Coover's "musicalization of literature."
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