| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 194 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Gale virtual reference library |
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Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 680 |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 680
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| Contents |
Success story : the life and career of Russell Banks -- The poetry -- Apprentice fiction : Searching for survivors -- Experiments in metafiction : Family life, Hamilton Stark, and The relation of my imprisonment -- The new world : tales -- Caribbean odysseys : The book of Jamaica and Continental drift -- American dreams and delusions : Trailer park and Success stories -- Worlds of pain : Affliction, The sweet hereafter, and Rule of the bone |
| Summary |
In this first full-length study, Robert Niemi provides a comprehensive view of Russell Banks's life and literary career, including his poetry, collected short fiction, and eight novels. Niemi examines Banks's complex evolution from counterculture aesthete to committed social critic. He argues a high degree of both political and aesthetic sophistication enable Banks to balance his narratives between chronicle and social critique. Stressing the author's "dual voice," a voice that moves inside and outside the blue-collar experience, Niemi reveals Banks as a political writer through and through, a writer devoted to telling the often horrifying truth about life in the modern world - not in an effort to titillate or shock or indulge in fashionable despair but in the hopes of illuminating a dark time for better times to come |
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Russell Banks |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-187) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Banks, Russell, 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Banks, Russell, 1940- fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00045677 |
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Banks, Russell. swd |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
96050231 |
| ISBN |
0805719121 |
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9780805719123 |
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