Eccentric individuality in William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, E.T., Doctor Rat, and other works of fiction and fantasy
By: Leon Lewis.
Series: Studies in American literature ;; v. 49; Studies in American literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) ;; v. 31.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Kotzwinkle, William -- Criticism and interpretation.; Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Eccentrics in literature.; Individuality in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-161) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: One. Authority and Identity: Lunatic Humor, Wild Things, The Surreal City; title: and A Serpent in the Garden1; title: Two. The Book of Love: Origins of artistic consciousness in Jackin theBox 13; title: Three. The Realm of Childhood: Visions of Paradise and an imagination of the; title: ideal in E. T, The Leopard's Tooth and Hearts of Wood31; title: Four. The Life and Times of a Good-Natured Zany: The Artist as musician,; title: mystic, beatnik and freak in The Fan Man53; title: Five. The Emergence of Evil: Darker dimensions of existence in DoctorRat,; title: Fata Morgana and The Exile71; title: Six. The Artist at Work: Sexual awareness as psychic transformation in; title: ANightbook and The Queen ofSwords, limitless childhood as an adult enterprise; title: in The MidnightExaminer and The HotJazz Trio 101; title: Seven: Jimmy McShane and a Bear from Maine: Life beyond the "failure" of; title: the alternate vision of The Sixties in The Game of Thirty and The Bear Went; title: Over the Mountain 117; title: Eight: The Far Shore of the Secret Sea: Refiguring the cartography of coherence; title: in Superman II, Great World Circus and Swimmer in the Secret Sea141; title: Bibliography159; title: European Editions 167; title: Index169.