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Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Little Red Ridinghood is not safe yet. Robert Coover returns with a new collection of short fiction, reexamining our shared narrative heritage -- myths, fairytales, and favorite childhood stories -- unearthing the underlying hope, fear, and wonder at their core. Simultaneously playful and systematic, satirical and empathetic, Coover uses the stories of our past to point towards a fiction of the future. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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While he infuses the stories with humor, Coover also uses the familiar icons of our cultural narrative to access serious themes. “Playing House,” a parable, questions the difference between light and darkness, and human response to both. “The Return of the Dark Children” visits post-Piper Hamelin to explore the roots of hysteria.
Coover electrifies his stories with his characteristic sarcasm and witty wordplay. Vocabulary ranging in topic from elocution to royal court titles to architecture should satisfy any logophile. Each tale flows into the next via common theme or tone, creating a compelling narrative thread through different settings and voices. These stories transform formerly two-dimensional, moralistic caricatures into complex beings enhanced with sexuality, anxiety, memory, fears and hopes. Coover affords us the chance to reevaluate our culture by seeing its foundations anew, giving us the freedom to question it from the same fresh perspective we did as children. ( )