Innocence, power, and the novels of John Hawkes /

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Author / Creator:Ferrari, Rita.
Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1996.
Description:vi, 220 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Penn studies in contemporary American fiction.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2522902
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ISBN:0812233417 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-216) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Textual Image, Authorial Vision, Narrative Voice in The Cannibal, The Beetle Leg, The Goose on the Grave, and The Owl
  • Ch. 2. Plotting Dreams: Fantasy and Representation in The Lime Twig
  • Ch. 3. Writing the Self: Second Skin, the Second Sex, and the Second Take
  • Ch. 4. Dreams of Wholeness, Nightmares of Dissolution: Aspects of the Artist in the Triad
  • Ch. 5. The Artist in the World of Women: The Imagination and Beyond in The Passion Artist
  • Ch. 6. The Labyrinth, the Wilderness, the Female Voice: Virginie: Her Two Lives and Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
  • Ch. 7. The Artist and His Subjects in Whistlejacket
  • Conclusion: The Domain of Purity, the Fragments of Actuality - Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse and the Imagination's Prism.