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Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970-1992 by William O'Rourke (Paperback, 1993)

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This book is O'Rourke's first volume of nfiction since his 1972 The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left, which Garry Wills hailed as a clinical x-ray of our society's condition. That book prompted Herbert Mitgang to name O'Rourke one of the finest writers of his generation. Signs of the Literary Times provides new evidence for that assessment. It brings together O'Rourke's unique mixture of literary, political, and cultural criticism published periodically during the last twenty-two years. The collection ranges from autobiographical essays describing his generation's literary evolution, to articles on free speech issues, such as nude dancing and the Bush-era NEA controversies, as well as book reviews that provide a fresh and largely uncharted critical map of the period. O'Rourke is t only interested in genre bending and expansion, but in persevering during this age of academic specialization as, in his phrase, a person of letters.In the two decades between his first work of nfiction and this volume, O'Rourke has published three highly acclaimed vels, The Meekness of Isaac (1974), Idle Hands (1981), and Criminal Tendencies (1987). Of the last, The Virginia Quarterly Review wrote, Of all the velists paraded in recent years by publishers as natural successors to Graham Greene, this one comes the closest. A thoroughly entertaining literary event.Signs of the Literary Times is t so much a compendium of diverse pieces on various subjects, as it is a cogent and continuing x-ray of our society's condition.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
ISBN-10
0791416828
ISBN-13
9780791416822
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107900095

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Author
William O'rourke
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook

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Place of Publication
Albany, NY
Series Title
Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
Author Biography
William O'Rourke has taught at Rutgers University, Mount Holyoke College, and is currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Date of Publication
18/11/1993
Country of Publication
United States

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