John Irving /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Chelsea House Publishers,
[2001]
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| Series: | Modern critical views.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Harold Bloom
- Garp : death in the family / Greil Marcus
- Domesticated madness / Benjamin DeMott
- Structure in the worlds of John Irving / Michael Priestly
- Reservations / Robert Towers
- Why is John Irving so popular? / Joseph Epstein
- The good wrestler / Gabriel Miller
- John Irving's aesthetics of accessibility / Jane Bowers Hill
- The postmodern novel : the example of John Irving's The world according to Garp / Raymond J. Wilson, III
- The family romances of John Irving / Debra Shostak
- Hero worship and hermeneutic dialectics : John Irving's A prayer for Owen Meany / Philip Page
- Saints, sinners and the Dickensian novel : the ethics of storytelling in John Irving's The cider house rules / Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack.