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Jesting in Earnest : Percival Everett and Menippean Satire /

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"When writing about Percival Everett, it has become customary to begin with a caveat that the conspicuous variety within his body of work will inherently frustrate any attempts at definitive classification. This selection of texts spans nearly the full length of Everett's career as a writer and incl...

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Autor Principal: Maus, Derek C. (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Everett, Percival.
Everett, Percival > Criticism and interpretation.
Satire > Classical influences.
Satire, American.
African American authors.
American literature > Classical influences.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Écrivains noirs americains > Biographies.
Litterature americaine > Influence ancienne.
Satire > Influence ancienne.
African American authors > Biography.
Satire, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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Summary:"When writing about Percival Everett, it has become customary to begin with a caveat that the conspicuous variety within his body of work will inherently frustrate any attempts at definitive classification. This selection of texts spans nearly the full length of Everett's career as a writer and includes his most popular works as well as some of his more obscure ones. It is intended as a sampling of the whole, not a ranked list; one should not infer from the emphasis on these fourteen works that Everett's remaining sixteen books are necessarily of lesser significance or lesser quality"--
Descrición Física:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9781611179637
Acceso:Open Access

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