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Eccentric individuality in William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, E.T., Doctor Rat, and other works of fiction and fantasy

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Edwin Mellen Press
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English
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170

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: One. Authority and Identity: Lunatic Humor, Wild Things, The Surreal City
and A Serpent in the Garden1
Two. The Book of Love: Origins of artistic consciousness in Jackin theBox 13
Three. The Realm of Childhood: Visions of Paradise and an imagination of the
ideal in E. T, The Leopard's Tooth and Hearts of Wood31
Four. The Life and Times of a Good-Natured Zany: The Artist as musician,
mystic, beatnik and freak in The Fan Man53
Five. The Emergence of Evil: Darker dimensions of existence in DoctorRat,
Fata Morgana and The Exile71
Six. The Artist at Work: Sexual awareness as psychic transformation in
ANightbook and The Queen ofSwords, limitless childhood as an adult enterprise
in The MidnightExaminer and The HotJazz Trio 101
Seven: Jimmy McShane and a Bear from Maine: Life beyond the "failure" of
the alternate vision of The Sixties in The Game of Thirty and The Bear Went
Over the Mountain 117
Eight: The Far Shore of the Secret Sea: Refiguring the cartography of coherence
in Superman II, Great World Circus and Swimmer in the Secret Sea141
Bibliography159
European Editions 167
Index169.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-161) and index.

Published in
Lewiston, N.Y
Series
Studies in American literature ;, v. 49, Studies in American literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) ;, v. 31.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3561.O85 Z76 2002

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v, 170 p. :
Number of pages
170

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Open Library
OL3950933M
ISBN 10
0773473106
LCCN
2001044176
OCLC/WorldCat
47643811
Goodreads
225704

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