COMIC TERROR: THE NOVELS OF JOHN HAWKES

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John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr. (August 17, 1925, May 15, 1998), was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended some traditional constraints of narrative fiction.

John Hawkes (Stamford, 17 agosto 1925, Providence, 15 maggio 1998) è stato uno scrittore statunitense. Noto per l'intensità della sua opera, che sospende i tradizionali vincoli formali della narrativa, Hawkes ha anche svolto un'intensa attività di insegnante di scrittura creativa, annoverando tra i suoi allievi autori come Rick Moody.

The definitive critical study of the John Hawkes novels written from Charivari (1949) through The Blood Oranges (1971).

Technique and comedy in Hawkes' novels
Innovative threesome: Charivari, The goose on the grave, The owl
Casualties of history: The Cannibal
Nightmarish Western: The beetle leg
Small, yet beyond elimination: The lime twig
Love at last: Second skin
Memoirs of a sex-singer: The blood oranges
A few remarks and conclusions
Selected checklist of John Hawkes.

Descrizione bibliografica
Titolo/Title: Comic terror: the novels of John Hawkes
Autore/Creator/Author: Donald J. Greiner
Format: Hardcover
Editore/Publisher: Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1973
Lunghezza/Physical Description: 270 pagine; 22 cm
ISBN: 087870017X, 9780878700172; 0878700447, 9780878700448
Lingua: Inglese
Language: English
Soggetti/Subjects: Humorous stories, American Literature, History, Literary Criticism, Interpretation, Comic, 20th-century Contemporary American literature, Roman, Avant-garde, Postmodernism, Experimental literature, 1925-1998, Black Humor, Horror tales, Violent Society, Chaos, Grotesque Horrors, Humor Studies, The Beetle Leg, The Cannibal, The Lime Twig, American novelists, Thomas Pynchon, Vladimir Nabokov, Surrealistic Western, Montana landscape, Nightmare, Fear, Out of print Vintage Books, Collectibles, Collections, Interviews, Baumback, Truman Capote, Arance rosso sangue, Letteratura postmoderna, Terrore, Storie umoristiche, Letteratura americana, Storia, Critica letteraria, Interpretazione, Letteratura americana contemporanea, XX secolo, Avanguardia, Postmodernismo, Letteratura sperimentale, Umorismo nero, Racconti dell'orrore, Società violenta, Caos, Orrore, Grottesco, Narrativa postmoderna, Collezionismo, Libri fuori catalogo, Novellas, Romanzi comici

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