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Shouting down the Silence : A Biography of Stanley Elkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252091018
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shouting down the SilenceDDC classification:
  • 813/.54 B
LOC classification:
  • PS3555
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "A Sum of Private Frequencies -- 2. When Stanley Elkin Was a Little Boy: New York and Chicago, 1930-48 -- 3. College, Graduate School, and the Army, 1948-57 -- 4. Family Crises, Graduate School, and a Literary Career, 1957-60 -- 5. "Become a Strong Man": St. Louis, Europe, First Base, Full Houses, and the Big Time, 1960-65 -- 6. "Convicted of His Character": Kibitzers, A Bad Man, Additions, and Catastrophe, 1965-68 -- 7. "Strange Displacements of the Ordinary": Recovery and The Dick Gibson Show, 1968-70 -- 8. "Blessèd Form": Novellas, a Sabbatical Year Abroad, and a Death Sentence, 1971-73 -- 9. "Making America Look Like America": Hollywood Beckons, a Breakthrough Novel, and a Cane, 1974-77 -- 10. Heaven and Hell, St. Louis and Mexico, the First Crusade, and South America: Life's Greatest Hits and a Major Disappointment, 1978-82 -- 11. Disney World and Alaskan Rabbis: A Masterpiece, a Flop, the Elkin Essay, and More Bad Medical News, 1983-88 -- 12. "But I Am Getting Ahead of Myself": Back to the Movies, Another Trilogy, More Awards, and the Last Years, 1989-94 -- 13. "The Stanley Elkin Chair": The Silence Descends, Posthumous Fiction, and Awards -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "A Sum of Private Frequencies -- 2. When Stanley Elkin Was a Little Boy: New York and Chicago, 1930-48 -- 3. College, Graduate School, and the Army, 1948-57 -- 4. Family Crises, Graduate School, and a Literary Career, 1957-60 -- 5. "Become a Strong Man": St. Louis, Europe, First Base, Full Houses, and the Big Time, 1960-65 -- 6. "Convicted of His Character": Kibitzers, A Bad Man, Additions, and Catastrophe, 1965-68 -- 7. "Strange Displacements of the Ordinary": Recovery and The Dick Gibson Show, 1968-70 -- 8. "Blessèd Form": Novellas, a Sabbatical Year Abroad, and a Death Sentence, 1971-73 -- 9. "Making America Look Like America": Hollywood Beckons, a Breakthrough Novel, and a Cane, 1974-77 -- 10. Heaven and Hell, St. Louis and Mexico, the First Crusade, and South America: Life's Greatest Hits and a Major Disappointment, 1978-82 -- 11. Disney World and Alaskan Rabbis: A Masterpiece, a Flop, the Elkin Essay, and More Bad Medical News, 1983-88 -- 12. "But I Am Getting Ahead of Myself": Back to the Movies, Another Trilogy, More Awards, and the Last Years, 1989-94 -- 13. "The Stanley Elkin Chair": The Silence Descends, Posthumous Fiction, and Awards -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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