Surface Tension Literary Fiction Robert Coover's The Public Burning

Robert Coover's The Public Burning

Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page is an unconventional study of Robert Coover's work from his early masterpiece The Origin of the Brunists (1966) to the recent Noir (2010)

and translator Michal Ajvaz was born into a Russian family in Prague in 1949

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working a dead-end job catching mice in a dingy movie theater

Surface Tension Literary Fiction Robert Coover's The Public BurningTaking Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Gerard Manley Hopkins as its primary subjects, Surface Tension reveals how these later Victorian poets repeatedly imagine the aesthetic momentcharged, variegated, intensely focusedas capable of birthing a new, and newly redemptive, culture. Turning to contemporary experimental poets and theorists of poetry, such as Andrew Joron, Lisa Robertson, Christopher Nealon, and Joan Retallack, it goes on to