The Resource Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage, Philip Weinstein
Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage, Philip Weinstein
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The item Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage, Philip Weinstein represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
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- Summary
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- "Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and a private interview (along with published ones), Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he ponders the purposes and problems of his life and his art, from his earliest fiction to his most recent novel, Purity. Franzen's work raises major questions about the possibilities of contemporary fiction: how does one appeal to a broad mass of mainstream readers, on the one hand, while persuading connoisseurs, on the other, that one's fiction has staying power, is high art? Even more acutely, how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first two novels to the more generous comic stance of the two later novels on which his reputation rests? Wrestling with these questions, Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage unpacks the becoming of Franzen as a person and a writer-from his ultra-sensitive Midwestern childhood, through his heady years at Swarthmore College, his marriage, and the alienating decade of the 1990s, up to his spectacular ascent and assimilation into pop-culture as one of the literary figures of his generation. Weinstein joins biography and criticism in ways that fully respect their differences-but that also grant that the work comes, however unpredictably, out of the life"--
- "The first critical biography of Jonathan Franzen, exploring the trajectory of his career and the intersections of his life and work"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 248 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Machine generated contents note:
- Chapter One: Introductory
- Chapter Two: Becoming Jonathan Franzen
- Chapter Three: A Bugged World: The Twenty-Seventh City
- Chapter Four: Something Wrong in the Underbrush: Strong Motion
- Chapter Five: Status and Contract, Collapse and Arrival
- Chapter Six: All in the Family: The Corrections
- Chapter Seven: Taking and Mistaking: Freedom
- Chapter Eight: The New Yorker
- Index
- Isbn
- 9781501307171
- Label
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage
- Title
- Jonathan Franzen
- Title remainder
- the comedy of rage
- Statement of responsibility
- Philip Weinstein
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and a private interview (along with published ones), Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he ponders the purposes and problems of his life and his art, from his earliest fiction to his most recent novel, Purity. Franzen's work raises major questions about the possibilities of contemporary fiction: how does one appeal to a broad mass of mainstream readers, on the one hand, while persuading connoisseurs, on the other, that one's fiction has staying power, is high art? Even more acutely, how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first two novels to the more generous comic stance of the two later novels on which his reputation rests? Wrestling with these questions, Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage unpacks the becoming of Franzen as a person and a writer-from his ultra-sensitive Midwestern childhood, through his heady years at Swarthmore College, his marriage, and the alienating decade of the 1990s, up to his spectacular ascent and assimilation into pop-culture as one of the literary figures of his generation. Weinstein joins biography and criticism in ways that fully respect their differences-but that also grant that the work comes, however unpredictably, out of the life"--
- "The first critical biography of Jonathan Franzen, exploring the trajectory of his career and the intersections of his life and work"--
- Assigning source
-
- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Weinstein, Philip M
- Dewey number
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- 813/.54
- B
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3556.R352
- LC item number
- Z93 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Franzen, Jonathan
- Authors, American
- Label
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage, Philip Weinstein
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter One: Introductory -- Chapter Two: Becoming Jonathan Franzen -- Chapter Three: A Bugged World: The Twenty-Seventh City -- Chapter Four: Something Wrong in the Underbrush: Strong Motion -- Chapter Five: Status and Contract, Collapse and Arrival -- Chapter Six: All in the Family: The Corrections -- Chapter Seven: Taking and Mistaking: Freedom -- Chapter Eight: The New Yorker -- Index
- Control code
- 18595208
- Extent
- 248 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501307171
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2015010305
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Label
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage, Philip Weinstein
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter One: Introductory -- Chapter Two: Becoming Jonathan Franzen -- Chapter Three: A Bugged World: The Twenty-Seventh City -- Chapter Four: Something Wrong in the Underbrush: Strong Motion -- Chapter Five: Status and Contract, Collapse and Arrival -- Chapter Six: All in the Family: The Corrections -- Chapter Seven: Taking and Mistaking: Freedom -- Chapter Eight: The New Yorker -- Index
- Control code
- 18595208
- Extent
- 248 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501307171
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2015010305
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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