William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion

Christopher K. Coffman; Daniel Lukes

doi:10.5771/9781611495119

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Edition: 1/2014
Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61149-510-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61149-511-9
Publisher: University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 366
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Preface No access
Introduction: Lonely Atoms No access Pages 1 - 22
1. 1 Egalitarian Longings: The Problem with Pity and the Search for Equality in Poor People No access
2. The World According to William T. Vollmann No access
3. 2 The Poetics and Politics of Zoning, Mythography, and Mestizo Space in Imperial No access
4. Vollmann in Russia: On Poor People No access
5. 3 William T. Vollmann’s Search for Truth and Community in Participative Research No access
6. Palm Trees No access
1. 4 Vollmann’s Argall-Text: Neo-Elizabethan Form and the Literalist Past in Seven Dreams No access
2. Vollmann between the Covers No access
3. Chapter Five: Writing Europe: Death, History, and the Intersecting Intellectual Worlds of William T. Vollmann and Danilo Kiš No access
4. 6 Kurt Gerstein and the Tragic Parable of “Clean Hands” No access
5. Reading Rising Up and Rising Down No access
6. 7 The New Universalism and William T. Vollmann’s Rising Up and Rising Down No access
1. 8 Our Oriental Heritage: Seeking the Postcolonial Postmodern in William T. Vollmann’s You Bright and Risen Angels No access
2. Piss Lime Vitriol No access
3. Chapter Nine: William T. Vollmann’s Paradigms of Power No access
4. The Shattered Object No access
5. 10 “Strange Hungers”: William T. Vollmann’s Literary Performances of Abject Masculinity No access
6. A Friendship No access
1. William T. Vollmann No access
2. 11 Imperial Photography No access
3. Against All Loss No access
4. 12 The Ethics of the Archive and the William T. Vollmann Collection No access
Afterword No access Pages 333 - 340
Bibliography No access Pages 341 - 350
Index No access Pages 351 - 360
About the Contributors No access Pages 361 - 366