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- catalog abstract ""Understanding Richard Powers presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey guides readers through Powers's combination of lexical virtuosity and structural daring - typical of the postmodernists - and the novelist's concern with the profound and humane dilemmas surrounding love and death characteristic of the late-twentieth-century realists. Dewey contends that while Powers's novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium, the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson - the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that has always been at the heart of the American literary imagination."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12558857.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Understanding Richard Powers presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey guides readers through Powers's combination of lexical virtuosity and structural daring - typical of the postmodernists - and the novelist's concern with the profound and humane dilemmas surrounding love and death characteristic of the late-twentieth-century realists.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Understanding Richard Powers -- Ch. 2. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance -- Ch. 3. Prisoner's Dilemma -- Ch. 4. The Gold Bug Variations -- Ch. 5. Operation Wandering Soul -- Ch. 6. Galatea 2.2 -- Ch. 7. Gain -- Ch. 8. Plowing the Dark.".
- catalog description "Dewey contends that while Powers's novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium, the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson - the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that has always been at the heart of the American literary imagination."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 176 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1570034427 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Understanding contemporary American literature".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "PS3566.O92 Z64 2002".
- catalog subject "Powers, Richard, 1957- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Understanding Richard Powers -- Ch. 2. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance -- Ch. 3. Prisoner's Dilemma -- Ch. 4. The Gold Bug Variations -- Ch. 5. Operation Wandering Soul -- Ch. 6. Galatea 2.2 -- Ch. 7. Gain -- Ch. 8. Plowing the Dark.".
- catalog title "Understanding Richard Powers / Joseph Dewey.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".