Jerome Klinkowitz - Böcker

-The complete short stories of Kurt Vonnegut---

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An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it is his importance in cultural history, Jerome Klinkowitz contends, that makes Wright the object of ...

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Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics. H...

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Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics. H...

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The author of Short Season and Writing Baseball presents poetry and short fiction on America's pastime. I have known Jerry Klinkowitz only as one of this country's most interesting and responsible literary critics. It comes as a complete surprise ...

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Each night, from April through August, up to a quarter of a million people in small towns and cities across America watch minor league baseball, experiencing the ups and downs of their local team - every move, every player, every inning. Welcome t...

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Klinkowitz comprehensive Introduction provides the clearest, liveliest exploration to date of the technical and critical developments in the art of the novel over the past two decades.Using a variety of approaches from polemic and lyric to persona...

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In the twelve months centered around the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a diverse group of American and British flyers fought one of the most remarkable air campaigns of WWII. Pilots including Claire Chennault, "Pappy" Boyington, and Art Donahue...

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Contrasts between fighter combat and the bombers' war support Klinkowitz's belief that notions of the air war were determined by one's position in it. He extends his thesis by showing the vastly different style of air war described by veterans of ...

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In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had sustained the novel since its birth-coherent cha...

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Jerome Klinkowitz presents an opening attempt to define postmodernism as it applies to the arts and culture. Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan discusses the work of three critics who came to prominence in the 1960s, an era of social, ideological, and aesth...

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Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents both an appreciation and a comprehensive examinatio...

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If, as the literary theorists of postmodernism contend, "content" does not exist, then how can fiction continue to be written? Jerome Klinkowitz, himself a veteran practitioner and theorist of fiction, addresses this question in Structuring the Vo...

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Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents both an appreciation and a comprehensive examinatio...

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Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics. H...

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Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics. H...

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From 1941 to 1945 the skies over the Pacific Ocean afforded the broadest arena for battle and the fiercest action of air combat during World War II. It was in the air above the Pacific that America's involvement in the war began. It was in these s...

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Bestselling authors, sensational lecturers, documentary filmmakers, amateur archaeologists, spies for FDR-Dana and Ginger Lamb led the life of Indiana Jones long before the movie icon was ever scripted. "e;We blaze the trail,"e; Ginger sai...

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Written by Vonnegut's friend and chief advocate in the academy, this title offers a definitive look at the writer's and nation's mutual influence. Kurt Vonnegut's death on April 11, 2007, marked the passing of a major force in American life and le...

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Integrates discussion of the fiction, essays, and lectures with personal exchanges and biographical sketches to map the complex symbiotic relationship between Kurt Vonnegut's work and the cultural context from which it emerged - and which it in tu...

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Airmen remembering the perils of combat in the skies over the Pacific

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The Lambs were not professional explorers, and drew on no resources other than those they could carry or improvise. But they pulled it off, having the time of their lives and making a career of it as well, as their dream of self-sufficiency became...

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From 1941 to 1945 the skies over the Pacific Ocean afforded the broadest arena for battle and the fiercest action of air combat during World War II. It was in the air above the Pacific that America's involvement in the war began. It was in these s...

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Bestselling authors, sensational lecturers, documentary filmmakers, amateur archaeologists, spies for FDR-Dana and Ginger Lamb led the life of Indiana Jones long before the movie icon was ever scripted. "e;We blaze the trail,"e; Ginger sai...

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A defining analysis of the entire span of Kurt Vonnegut's fictionKurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary c...

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Kurt Vonnegut's death in 2007 marked the passing of a major force in American life and letters. Jerome Klinkowitz, one of the earliest and most prolific authorities on Vonnegut, examines the long dialogue between the author and American culture-a ...

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Vonnegut in Fact offers a thorough assessment of the artistry of Kurt Vonnegut, known not only as the best-selling author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Timequake, and a dozen other novels, but also as the most widely recognized public spokesperson among...

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