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Wilson Harris, Alan Burns : the bookstore in America : Borders / guest editors, Joyce Sparer Adler (Harris), David W. Madden (Burns).

Contributor(s): Adler, Joyce | Madden, David, 1933-Material type: TextTextReference number:ocm37278807Series: Review of contemporary fiction ; v. 17, no. 2Publication details: Normal, IL : Review of contemporary fiction, 1997. Description: 319 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 1564781615Other title: Bookstore in America : bordersSubject(s): Harris, Wilson -- Criticism and interpretation | Burns, Alan, 1929- -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 809.2
Partial contents:
Wilson Harris: an introduction / Joyce Sparer Adler --Quetzalcoatl and the smoking mirror (Reflections on originality and tradition) / Wilson Harris -- From Jonestown / Wilson Harris --Discovering Wilson Harris / Kathleen Raine -- Lines composed after reading "The Guyana quartet" / Zulfikar Ghose -- Wilson Harris "In the forests of the night" / Pauline Melville -- Postcoloniality / Modernity : Wilson Harris and postcolonial theory / Stuart Murray -- Toward the reading of Wilson Harris / Timothy Cribb -- Breaking down barriers as genesis of a new beginning in "Palace of the Peacock" / Fernanda Steele -- The Leech- Gatherer and the Arawak Woman / Louis James -- New personalities: race, sexuality, and gender in Wilson Harris's recent fiction / Vera Kutzinski -- Creative bridges: some aspects of myth in "Couvade" and "The four banks of the river of space" / Patricia Murray -- Renewal in a far more resonant key: reflections on the mad, sin-eating relics of fire in "Resurection at Sorrow Hill" / Desmond Hamlet --Charting the uncapturable in Wilson Harris's writing / Hena Maes Jelinek -- Space sounds in Wilson Harris's recent fiction / Mary Lou Emory --Wilson Harris at Faber and Faber / Frank Pike -- A Wilson Harris checklist / Joyce Sparer Adler -- Alan Burns: an introduction / David W. Madden -- An interview with Alan Burns / David W. Madden -- Imaginary dictionary / Alan Burns -- Two chapters from a book provisionally title "Human like the rest of us: a life of B. S. Johnson" / Alan Burns --Through that tunnel / John Calder -- Identity and Alan Burns / Paddy Kitchen -- Fine cut: Alan Burns's collage prose -- A note on Alan Burns's fiction / Wilson Harris -- Burns's aleatoric "Celebrations": smashing hegemony at the sentence level / Charles Sugnet -- Right you go, left with Burns / Zulfikar Ghose -- In his own Alan / Michael Dennis Browne -- The texture of a life lived / Jay Neugeboren -- Alan Burns and the velocity of a dream / Al Greenberg -- An Alan Burns Checklist / David W. Madden.
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Wilson Harris: an introduction / Joyce Sparer Adler --Quetzalcoatl and the smoking mirror (Reflections on originality and tradition) / Wilson Harris -- From Jonestown / Wilson Harris --Discovering Wilson Harris / Kathleen Raine -- Lines composed after reading "The Guyana quartet" / Zulfikar Ghose -- Wilson Harris "In the forests of the night" / Pauline Melville -- Postcoloniality / Modernity : Wilson Harris and postcolonial theory / Stuart Murray -- Toward the reading of Wilson Harris / Timothy Cribb -- Breaking down barriers as genesis of a new beginning in "Palace of the Peacock" / Fernanda Steele -- The Leech- Gatherer and the Arawak Woman / Louis James -- New personalities: race, sexuality, and gender in Wilson Harris's recent fiction / Vera Kutzinski -- Creative bridges: some aspects of myth in "Couvade" and "The four banks of the river of space" / Patricia Murray -- Renewal in a far more resonant key: reflections on the mad, sin-eating relics of fire in "Resurection at Sorrow Hill" / Desmond Hamlet --Charting the uncapturable in Wilson Harris's writing / Hena Maes Jelinek -- Space sounds in Wilson Harris's recent fiction / Mary Lou Emory --Wilson Harris at Faber and Faber / Frank Pike -- A Wilson Harris checklist / Joyce Sparer Adler -- Alan Burns: an introduction / David W. Madden -- An interview with Alan Burns / David W. Madden -- Imaginary dictionary / Alan Burns -- Two chapters from a book provisionally title "Human like the rest of us: a life of B. S. Johnson" / Alan Burns --Through that tunnel / John Calder -- Identity and Alan Burns / Paddy Kitchen -- Fine cut: Alan Burns's collage prose -- A note on Alan Burns's fiction / Wilson Harris -- Burns's aleatoric "Celebrations": smashing hegemony at the sentence level / Charles Sugnet -- Right you go, left with Burns / Zulfikar Ghose -- In his own Alan / Michael Dennis Browne -- The texture of a life lived / Jay Neugeboren -- Alan Burns and the velocity of a dream / Al Greenberg -- An Alan Burns Checklist / David W. Madden.

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