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"Dewey's book is a good place to start for readers who are interested in Powers, and it will have a positive effect on further critical studies." - Choice" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Understanding Richard Powers presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey guides readers through Powers's dazzling combination of lexical virtuosity and structural daring--typical of the postmodernists--and the novelist’s concern with the profound and humane dilemmas surrounding love and death, characteristic of the late-century realists. Dewey contends that while Powers's novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium, the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson--the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that has always been at the heart of the American literary imagination.
"Dewey's book is a good place to start for readers who are interested in Powers, and it will have a positive effect on further critical studies." - Choice" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Understanding Richard Powers presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey guides readers through Powers's dazzling combination of lexical virtuosity and structural daring--typical of the postmodernists--and the novelist’s concern with the profound and humane dilemmas surrounding love and death, characteristic of the late-century realists. Dewey contends that while Powers's novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium, the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson--the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that has always been at the heart of the American literary imagination.
Through an overview of Powers's career and close readings of his novels, which include Galatea 2.2, Prisoner's Dilemma, The Gold Bug Variations, Operation Wandering Soul, Gain, and Plowing the Dark, Dewey explores each of the novelist's defining metaphors. Dewey places Powers in context as a major voice in the first generation born entirely within the era of television and the computer. Dewey shows us how Powers reminds his readers that we have never been so connected and yet never quite so alone.
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In a literary era that has threatened to make such artifacts quaintly nostalgic, Richard Powers writes big novels of ideas-or more exactly big novels about characters unafraid to tangle with the implications of having ideas and to articulate that remarkable enterprise with wit and erudition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aesthetic enterprise, nameless narrator, three farmers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eddie Hobson, Stuart Ressler, The Gold Bug Variations, Prisoner's Dilemma, Laura Bodey, Plowing the Dark, Operation Wandering Soul, Peter Mays, Van Gogh, World War, Richard Kraft, Snow White, Emily Dickinson, Franklin Todd, New York, The Pied Piper, August Sander, New Mexico, Peter Schreck, Professor Taylor, World's Fair, Carver General, Diana Hartrick, Hagia Sophia, Jeanette Koss New!
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In a literary era that has threatened to make such artifacts quaintly nostalgic, Richard Powers writes big novels of ideas-or more exactly big novels about characters unafraid to tangle with the implications of having ideas and to articulate that remarkable enterprise with wit and erudition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aesthetic enterprise, nameless narrator, three farmers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eddie Hobson, Stuart Ressler, The Gold Bug Variations, Prisoner's Dilemma, Laura Bodey, Plowing the Dark, Operation Wandering Soul, Peter Mays, Van Gogh, World War, Richard Kraft, Snow White, Emily Dickinson, Franklin Todd, New York, The Pied Piper, August Sander, New Mexico, Peter Schreck, Professor Taylor, World's Fair, Carver General, Diana Hartrick, Hagia Sophia, Jeanette Koss New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers on 18 pages
- Plowing the Dark: A Novel by Richard Powers on 11 pages
- Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers on 10 pages
- Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers on 7 pages
- Goldberg Variations: Piano Solo by Ralph Kirkpatrick on page 51, page 54, and page 55
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- Late Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium by Jeremy Green in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beyond Grief And Nothing: A Reading of Don Delillo by Joseph Dewey in Back Matter
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