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- catalog abstract "The St. Botolphs of Cheever's early stories and the upscale, Westchester-like towns - Shady Hill, Proxmire Manor, and Bullet Park - of his later work find their complex companions in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County and John Updike's Rabbit's world. Cheever laid out the parameters of this creative world in his very first published story, "Expelled," which appeared in the New Republic in 1930 when Cheever was only 18. The young protagonist of this autobiographical story would be the first of many Cheever heroes to fall from what Meanor describes as "a condition of Edenic happiness and childlike innocence into the chaos and pain of adult knowledge." Moses Wapshot of Cheever's first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle (1958), Neddy Merrill of the critically acclaimed short story "The Swimmer" (1964), and even Zeke Farragut of Cheever's novel of redemption, Falconer (1977), struggle to reclaim some remnant of an earlier, lost happiness. Loneliness, fear of aging, family disintegration, alcoholic obsessiveness, sexual desperation, the threat of financial ruin, and a reliance on illusion form the dark core of Cheever's work, creative transformations of some of the themes that dominated his life. Throughout this volume Meanor distinguishes the autobiographical strains in the fiction by drawing from Cheever's documents of his struggles - especially with alcoholism and bisexuality - in The Letters of John Cheever (1988) and The Journals of John Cheever (1991). Meanor fleshes out both biblical and mythological motifs in the stories and the novels; his study is perhaps the first to treat the possible symbolic interpretations of names of characters and places so thoroughly. Burdened by a biblical sense of shame and guilt, Cheever's characters find fleeting, life-giving moments of psychological release "in the celebratory paganism of Greek and Roman myth," Meanor writes, in love, passion, the pleasures of the body.".
- catalog contributor b7162093.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""Fiction is never crypto-autobiography": the life of John Cheever -- "A writing machine": The Way some people live and The Enormous radio and other stories -- "Mythologizing the commonplace": The Wapshot novels -- "Ovid in Ossining": The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Some people, places, and things that will never appear in my next novel -- Into the abyss of self: The Brigadier and the golf widow -- "Lethal Eden": Bullet Park and The World of apples -- Confinement and release: Falconer and Oh what a paradise it seems -- One day at a time: the letters and journals.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The St. Botolphs of Cheever's early stories and the upscale, Westchester-like towns - Shady Hill, Proxmire Manor, and Bullet Park - of his later work find their complex companions in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County and John Updike's Rabbit's world. Cheever laid out the parameters of this creative world in his very first published story, "Expelled," which appeared in the New Republic in 1930 when Cheever was only 18. The young protagonist of this autobiographical story would be the first of many Cheever heroes to fall from what Meanor describes as "a condition of Edenic happiness and childlike innocence into the chaos and pain of adult knowledge." Moses Wapshot of Cheever's first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle (1958), Neddy Merrill of the critically acclaimed short story "The Swimmer" (1964), and even Zeke Farragut of Cheever's novel of redemption, Falconer (1977), struggle to reclaim some remnant of an earlier, lost happiness. Loneliness, fear of aging, family disintegration, alcoholic obsessiveness, sexual desperation, the threat of financial ruin, and a reliance on illusion form the dark core of Cheever's work, creative transformations of some of the themes that dominated his life. Throughout this volume Meanor distinguishes the autobiographical strains in the fiction by drawing from Cheever's documents of his struggles - especially with alcoholism and bisexuality - in The Letters of John Cheever (1988) and The Journals of John Cheever (1991). Meanor fleshes out both biblical and mythological motifs in the stories and the novels; his study is perhaps the first to treat the possible symbolic interpretations of names of characters and places so thoroughly. Burdened by a biblical sense of shame and guilt, Cheever's characters find fleeting, life-giving moments of psychological release "in the celebratory paganism of Greek and Roman myth," Meanor writes, in love, passion, the pleasures of the body.".
- catalog extent "xx, 205 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "John Cheever revisited.".
- catalog identifier "0805739998".
- catalog isFormatOf "John Cheever revisited.".
- catalog isPartOf "Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 647".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,".
- catalog relation "John Cheever revisited.".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "Cheever, John Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PS3505.H6428 Z77 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Fiction is never crypto-autobiography": the life of John Cheever -- "A writing machine": The Way some people live and The Enormous radio and other stories -- "Mythologizing the commonplace": The Wapshot novels -- "Ovid in Ossining": The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Some people, places, and things that will never appear in my next novel -- Into the abyss of self: The Brigadier and the golf widow -- "Lethal Eden": Bullet Park and The World of apples -- Confinement and release: Falconer and Oh what a paradise it seems -- One day at a time: the letters and journals.".
- catalog title "John Cheever revisited / Patrick Meanor.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".