Reading Stanley Elkin |
Contents
The Bully Poetics of Stanley Elkin | 1 |
A Desert Sensibility in the Virgin Land | 21 |
The Sound of the American Ordinary | 53 |
Demyelinating America and the Stricken Burger King | 99 |
The Flashy Grammar of Body Contact and a Condos | 134 |
Common terms and phrases
adventure affirmation American Ordinary Ashenden Bailbondsman become Behr-Bleibtreau Bellow's Bernt Body Contact Boswell bully's Cassadaga character condominium confrontation Crainpool Crown Center cultural death Demyelinating America Desert Sensibility Dick Gibson Show Dick's dramatizes Elkin's fiction Elkin's style Ellerbee embodiment experience father Faulkner's feel final Finsbergs Fisher Flashy Grammar Flesh Franchiser Gass George Mills gesture Grammar of Body Hell hope human ideal Interview Jewish Jewish-American Kibitzers Ladlehaus language Leo Feldman listeners literary Living End Lunchpail Mills Meets magic Main's Marshall means Meets the Epilogue metafiction metaphor Mills's monologue multiple sclerosis mystery myth mythic narrative Night Letters nonetheless novel novella obsession Philip Roth Poetics for Bullies Preminger prose protagonists Push Push's radio Reading Stanley Elkin reality reflects represents rhetorical Robert Coover Saul Bellow sense significance silence Stricken Burger King symbol thematic theme things third-person narrative tion turns ultimate Virgin Land vision voice William Gass writing York