Jonathan 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 conisseurs, on the other, that one's fiction has is high art? Even more acutely, how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first two vels to the more generous comic stance of the two later vels 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. Philip Weinstein joins biography and criticism in ways that fully respect their differences but also grant that the work comes, however unpredictably, out of the life.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
ISBN-10
149451172x
ISBN-13
9781494511722
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216821734
Product Key Features
Author
Philip Weinstein
Format
CD-Audio, CD Standard Audio Format
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Literary
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, Ct
Running Time
386
Narrator(s)
Tom Zingarelli
Author Biography
Philip Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College. He is the author of several books, including Becoming Faulkner, which received the Holman Award for the best book written on southern literature. Philip is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. A veteran voice artist, Tom Zingarelli has produced and narrated many audiobooks in the last several years. He has also recorded books for the Connecticut State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. His voice was featured on the popular PBS children's television program Between the Lions.
Date of Publication
22/10/2015
Edition Statement
Unabridged Edition
Country of Publication
United States
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