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The Public Burning by Robert Coover | |
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| Name: |
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
11215 words, approx. 37.4 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 ear... summary from source:
Biography of Robert (Lowell) Coover
8483 words, approx. 28.3 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 virtuo...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Public Burning Information
198 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Public Burning, a work of postmodern fiction by Robert Coover published in 1977, is an account of the events leading to the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. An uncharacteristically human caricature of Richard Nixon serves as protagonist and...
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 Harper's Magazine The Public Burning.(Review)
06/01/1999: 6,993 words, approx. 23 pages The Public Burning, by Robert Coover. Viking, 1977. Paperback: Grove Press, 1998. 544 pages. $14. Michael Cunningham's The Hours, published last fall to admiring reviews and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for the year's best work of... summary from source:
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction The Public Burning Log 1966-77.
09/22/2000: 16,685 words, approx. 56 pages This is a narrative of the writing and publishing of The Public Burning, taken from logs and letters of the time. Much has been omitted from this sizable chunk of my life that might be of autobiographical curiosity (family, friends, festivities, most reading...
Literary Criticism
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 Larry McCaffery
10,044 words, approx. 34 pages
McCaffery is an American educator and critic. In the following excerpt, originally published in slightly different form in 1979, he examines Coover's portrayal of the human tendency to manufacture myths in The Origin of the Brunists and The Public Burning.
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David C. Estes
7,563 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Estes examines Robert Coover's use of folk styles, particularly an unsentimental type of humor, in The Public Burning.
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Critical Essay by Richard Walsh
7,170 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Walsh examines Coover's reinterpretation of the Rosenberg trial and McCarthy-era hysteria in The Public Burning, arguing that the novel's carnivalesque satire—particularly as embodied in the Nixon and Uncle Sam characters—dramatizes the collective psychology of Cold War American society.
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The Public Burning by Robert Coover | |
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