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	Robert Coover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University.
		Coover's first novel was The Origin of the Brunists, in which the sole survivor of a mine disaster starts a religious cult.
		Coover is one of the founders of the Electronic Literature Organization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Coover (399 words)

	Robert Christgau: What Pretentious White Men Are Good For: Robert Coover's "Gerald's Party"
		Coover says his latest book "contains almost all the elements of my previous novels," which is the kind of thing you might expect him to claim for his first full-length work since 1977 and is true nevertheless.
		And while Coover's transcriptions of speech aren't totally free of annoying condescension, his fascination with American idiom adds a richness of texture you won't find in Barth or Barthelme or Hawkes, who for their various reasons are all more British in diction and/or rhythm than has been common in our literature.
		Coover is one of those select contemporary writers who is genuinely awestruck by the pervasive power of the tools of his trade, an honorary citizen of structuralism's vast domain.
	www.robertchristgau.com /xg/bkrev/coover-86.php (1893 words)

	Robert Coover Criticism
		Coover's fictions clearly emphasize their author's interest in providing his readers with the kinds of metaphors that are necessary for a healthy imagination.
		Coover suggests that the contemporary artist—bound as he is to his audience as performer, magician, and funhouse...
		Coover is an ambitious and gifted writer who has made the mistake of treating a distressing and important subject in a kind of surrealistic razzamatazz which rapidly becomes confusing and unreadable.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Robert_Coover (2293 words)

	NewStandard: 6/18/96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert Coover's mysterious new novel, "John's Wife," is a cosmorama of eros and ethos in a small American prairie town.
		Coover is a master of hypertext, and in its unconventional approach "John's Wife" is multi-linear: "Every paragraph has its unique point of view," he said, and as much as possible, the time frame also shifts, suddenly leaping decades from one event to another.
		Coover said, categorically, "If a reviewer praising or rejecting the book fails to mention that she disappears, then he has not read the book." John's wife's husband is an entirely different matter, a power-mad tycoon, "a ruthless life force" who paves over parks and seems hellbent on ruining everything and everyone in sight.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-96/06-18-96/c04li091.htm (1093 words)

	Robert Coover Stepmother Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Robert Coover's lighthearted fable yanks in just about every character you've ever seen in anything that fell under the label of "fairy tale" and crams them in a magical forest with a mind of its own.
		Coover's 'Stepmother' is a wicked hoot that rides away on a broom from any expectations you might care to bring with you.
		Coover's sentences are clear, punchy and light as a feather.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2004/coover-stepmother.htm (536 words)

	Eye Weekly - Fall Book Guide - Robert Coover - 11.05.98
		Coover's new novel, Ghost Town (Henry Holt, $33.95), was published in September to little of the fanfare that accompanied, say, Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon.
		Coover specializes in hypertext, the study of computer-driven reading and writing, in which narrative flow is nonlinear and interactive -- indeed, often controlled by the reader, not the author.
		Coover describes his next book as "a collection of short fiction dealing with children's themes," but he's also working on a long novel about a different cultural institution: the porn film.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.05.98/art/BGcoover5.php (721 words)

	Robert Coover
		To know what kind of writer Robert Coover is, one first must understand what kind of person Robert Coover admires.
		When he was 19, Coover had just come home from college on holiday break when he learned that a mining accident had killed a number of workers.
		As he rummaged through the debris, Coover was shocked at the number of family members grieving over the dead and mostly disfigured bodies.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-020405-coover.html (532 words)

	Amazon.de: Ghost Town: English Books: Robert Coover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Coover writes with prodigious intellectual energy and quicksilver wit; his sentences are never less than surprising, and often possess a sublime beauty all their own.
		Coover's writing in that novel is not overtly gimmicky as in "Pricksongs..." and for that matter "Ghost Town." Rather than aim his irony at the text itself, he aims it at the subject matter, and the end result is a "meta-fiction" about baseball that brilliantly meditates upon the nature of loneliness.
		Coover is content to take L'Amour's and Grey's interpretation to its carnal extremes, but he does so without once supplying his own theory about that which is being interpreted.
	www.amazon.de /Ghost-Town-Robert-Coover/dp/0802136664 (1134 words)

	McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Additional Appreciations of Robert Coover from Ben Marcus, Brian Evenson, and Edwidge ...
		Robert Coover was my teacher before I ever met him, and his fiction continues to be what I dream of aspiring to: mad, beautiful, inventive, and unprecedented.
		Coover both turns the fairy tale on its head, and pays tribute to the darkness and unforgivingness that is found in the Grimms’ original tales but which has been boiled out of the Disneyfied versions.
		For Coover, once a story or myth becomes “official”—once it is a story meant to prove a point, to justify a dominant cultural group, or to justify a way of life—it dies.
	www.mcsweeneys.net /2004/6/29appreciations.html (2968 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Robert Coover - Spanking the Maid at Epinions.com
		Coover is exploring themes of creation and destruction, of life and death, and of worship and devotion.
		In one intense scene, the master punishes her with a series of instruments--though, again, Coover forces you to question whether this is one long punishment or whether they have all become melded in the minds of the participants--until he finally feels fatigued and his arm is tired.
		Coover is clever in his presentation of this novel.
	www.epinions.com /content_70279794308 (1611 words)

	Amazon.ca: Pinocchio in Venice: Books: Robert Coover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio.
		That much said, this is one of Coover's best books, a little childish in places, but a delight from beginning to end.
		Before tackling this book by that real boy, that master of juvenile linguistic pyrotechnics(some of Coover's convoluted sentences are as witty as anything written by anyone in English this century) the reader, and there won't be too many casual or should I say causal readers, should study the original Pinnochio.
	www.amazon.ca /Pinocchio-Venice-Robert-Coover/dp/0802134858 (749 words)

	Monkeyfist.com: Language and Power: Robert Coover's The Public Burning
		It is testament to Coover's immense skills as a writer that his novel succeeds at being all of these things, and ends up, in fact, transcending the sum of its formidable parts.
		Coover's acid caricature of America is clever, astute, and, I would argue, necessary: when the justice system and the federal government make straightfaced, yet absurd, assurances that justice is being served in the face of blatant injustice, they unwittingly turn themselves into agents of self-parody.
		These points that Coover makes aren't merely academic; in a very real sense, the Rosenbergs were electrocuted because the people in power could control and manipulate the language that defined the case in the public's mind.
	monkeyfist.com /articles/649 (911 words)

	Playing at Life: Robert Coover and His Fiction
		Robert K. Johnston, associate professor of religion at Western Kentucky University, in the author of Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice (John Knox).
		Coover should not be grouped with existentialists like Camus, however, for whereas Camus seeks to challenge the absurd through action and thereby affirm self in the face of the tragic human condition, Coover is more inclined just to accept life’s condition, to play the game for what it is.
		If Coover is to be categorized philosophically (and this is perhaps appropriate given his former employment as a professor of philosophy), he would better fit in the positivistic tradition that views as nonsensical whatever is incapable of verification.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1231 (2964 words)

	Robert Coover Summary
		Even before the publication of The Public Burning (1977) made him famous, Robert Coover had already achieved a solid reputation, mostly among academics and college audiences, as one of the most original and versatile prose stylists in America.
		Robert Coover is one of America's most distinguished writers.
		His eminence is to be measured not by the size of his current readership, which remains select, but in terms of the technical resourcefulness that has enabled him to produce a series of virtuo...
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_Coover (303 words)

	Gerald's Party - Robert Coover - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Coover's novel is, among other things, a satire of murder mysteries.
		Robert Coover's wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party.
		What Coover has in store for his guests - besides an evening gone mad - is part murder mystery, part British parlor drama, part sly and dazzling meditation of time, theater, and love.
	www.biblio.com /books/36480711.html (277 words)

	Robert Coover: The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert Coover takes us through the looking-glass of Joseph Cornell's boxes into a world of "Grand Hotels" we never dreamed of.
		Coover's recent novels are Ghost Town (1998), Briar Rose and John's Wife (both 1996), Pinocchio in Venice (1991), and Gerald's Party (1985).
		"Coover's concerns are those of the major literary tradition, that of Poe and Melville, Hawthorne and Faulkner, for he seeks in his fiction the truths of the human heart in the labyrinths of a fallen world."
	www.burningdeck.com /catalog/coover.htm (286 words)

	ROBERT COOVER - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE
		Robert Coover's eclectic collection of stories, short fiction, plays, and novels are drawn from his rich intellectual history.
		A member of the post-modernist movement, Coover is often called an experimentalist because of the way he mixes reality and illusion.
		Coover was born in 1932 in Iowa and attended Southern Illinois University, Indiana University and the University of Chicago.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/coover/coover.htm (134 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ghost Town: Books: Robert Coover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ghost Town, Robert Coover (7/02): This is an amazing novel in that it is simultaneously juvenile and pretentious.
		Those who come to Coover from his earlier works are well-prepared for this remarkable synthesis of excellent language, excellent description, excellent mood.
		Critics (not to mention grad students) will be playing with this one for years; casual readers will carry it around with them and read their favorite bits over and over again for even longer.
	www.amazon.ca /Ghost-Town-Robert-Coover/dp/0802136664 (1463 words)

	Books: PICK OF THE WEEK - Robert Coover Wed Warwick Arts Centre Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The American novelist and teacher Robert Coover makes a rare appearance in the UK this week, when he will be visiting Coventry to talk about his work.
		Coover has been a convention-buster all his writing life, but while he is regularly aligned with the experimental writers of the postwar years, he has always emphasised the supreme importance of story.
		In his latest novella, Stepmother, Coover acts on another of his axioms: that stories must be constantly reinvented.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050115/ai_n9696913 (267 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Robert Coover
		Coover's real concern is with the mythology of the Western.
		Coover, though, also possesses gifts more associated with traditional fiction.
		Robert Coover has filled in this genre very well.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.15.98/books-9841.html (530 words)

	Featured Author: Robert Coover
		"Coover is one of America's quirkiest writers, if by 'quirky' we mean an unwillingness to abide by ordinary fictional rules and a conviction that a novel is primarily a verbal artifact unconvertible to other media."
		Coover's review of Bartlett's book of familiar quotations is constructed from familiar quotations from Bartlett's book.
		Robert Coover brought together a conference of "iconoclasts with tenure."
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/09/27/specials/coover.html (659 words)

	Robert Coover
		Robert Coover (Charlie in the House of Rue) is the author of fourteen books, including A Night At the Movies (includes the story "Charlie in the House of Rue" on which the play is based), Briar Rose, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
		He has received numerous awards, including the William Faulkner Award for best first novel (Origin of the Brunists), the Brandeis citation for Fiction, three Obie awards, and the American Academy of ARts and Letters Award, and he has been nominated for a National Book Award for his novel The Public Burning.
		Coover has held teaching positions at Bard College, the University of Iowa, Princeton University, and Brown University, where since 1980 he has been Professor of English and where he teaches creative writing.
	www.amrep.org /people/coover.html (134 words)

	Robert Coover Interview with Don Swaim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert Coover visits Don in 1986 to discuss his newest novel, Gerald’s Party, and its unconventional structure.
		Coover is also the author of The Public Burning, Spanking the Maid and John’s Wife.
		He is the recipient of the Dugannon Foundation’s REA award for his lifetime contribution to the short story.
	wiredforbooks.org /robertcoover (127 words)

	ELO State of the Arts Symposium: Robert Coover
		ELO State of the Arts Symposium: Robert Coover
		Robert Coover is widely regarded as one of America's most influential living writers, author of some fifteen groundbreaking books of fiction, including Pricksongs & Descants, The Public Burning, and most recently Ghost Town.
		Coover has for the past decade been teaching experimental courses in hypertext and multimedia narrative at Brown University.
	eliterature.org /state/bio-CooverRobert.shtml (90 words)

	Robert Coover
		Robert Coover was both in Charles City, Iowa.
		By mixing reality with illusion, Coover creates another, alternative world.
		"For taking the dross of the ordinary and spinning it into the treasure of myth Robert Coover [is] a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America."
	www.reaaward.org /html/robert_coover.html (221 words)

	The Rea Award for the Short Story - Robert Coover
		The $25,000 Rea Award for the Short Story was established in 1986, to annually honor a writer who has made a significant contribution to the short story as an art form.
		“Amazing,” “fantastic,” and “magic” are among the words used to describe the effects of Coover’s fiction.
		Mythology and the fairy tale have always attracted Coover and are elements of his widely praised first collection of short stories, Pricksongs and Descants.
	www.reaaward.org /Coover/Coover.html (379 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Robert Coover
		Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all flit across Robert Coover's riotously funny screen, doing things and uttering lines that are as shocking to them as they are funny to the reader.
		As Coover's Program announces, you will get Coming Attractions, The Weekly Serial, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, and more, but turned upside-down and inside-out.
		"Robert Coover has made literary art out of a total immersion in the movies.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/coover.html (246 words)

	Understanding Robert Coover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He explores Coover's concern with notions of community and the ways communities hold together through a series of shared stories and myths—myths that often, once they lose their effectiveness, come to justify violence.
		Evenson explicates Coover's rewriting of myths and explores his willingness to break the frame of his fiction so as to include both fantastic and realistic elements.
		Evenson also show that, for Coover, storymaking is essential to what makes us human, and for that reason his ideas remain at the heart of what makes literature dynamic and intriguing.
	www.sc.edu /uscpress/2002/3482.html (306 words)

	village voice > books > Robert Coover's A Child Again by Carla Blumenkranz
		Robert Coover's books have gotten smaller, from the doorstop of 1977's The Public Burning to the slender invocations of fairy tales he's published in more recent years.
		Coover is as raunchy and rigorous as always (see Snow White's "formidable hymen"), but with a troubling new emphasis on how much fun we're all having.
		Unspeakable enigmas aside, Coover has a cave, too—the virtual reality center at Brown bears that name—but from this angle, it looks more like a fortress under siege.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0544,blumenkran,69516,10.html (517 words)

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