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Robert Coover
Coover in 2009
Born
(1932-02-04) February 4, 1932 (age 92) Charles City, Iowa, U.S.
Occupation
Writer
Education
Southern Illinois University Carbondale Indiana University Bloomington (BA) University of Chicago (MA)
Period
1960s–present
Genre
Short story, novel
Spouse
Maria Pilar Sans i Mallafré (1959–present)
Children
Diana Nin
Sara Chapin
Roderick Luis
Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University.[1] He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.
^"Literary Arts". Brown University. 27 July 2023. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown...
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the broader pastiche of the postmodern novel). In RobertCoover's 1977 novel The Public Burning, Coover mixes historically inaccurate accounts of Richard...
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literature. The ELO was founded in 1999 in Chicago by Scott Rettberg, RobertCoover, and Jeff Ballowe. Rettberg took the role as CEO, and Ballowe was president...
The Origin of the Brunists is RobertCoover's first novel. It tells the story of Giovanni Bruno, the lone survivor of a mine disaster that killed 97 of...
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include Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, William H. Gass, RobertCoover, and Ishmael Reed. Historiographic metafiction Metahistorical romance...
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earning a B.A. in Fine Arts there in 1964. While at Bard she met RobertCoover and Robert Kelly, two authors who shared Ducornet's fascination with metamorphosis...
The Brunist Day of Wrath is RobertCoover's tenth novel. It is a sequel to The Origin of the Brunists, which told the story of Giovanni Bruno, the lone...
recasts loosely the Pinocchio theme. Pinocchio in Venice (1991) by RobertCoover. Pinocchio: The Boy, (2002) children's picture book by Lane Smith. Viking...
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thriller directed by Guy Ferland based on the eponymous short story by RobertCoover in his 1969 collection Pricksongs and Descants. In 1996, she starred...
IX. McCaffery, Larry (1982). The Metafictional Muse: The Works of RobertCoover, Donald Barthelme, and William H. Gass. University of Pittsburgh Press...
"Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer", the novelist and professor RobertCoover noted the new possibilities for exploring these various storyworlds:...
album. Several writers have drawn inspiration from the tale, such as RobertCoover in "The Gingerbread House" (Pricksongs and Descants, 1969), Anne Sexton...
Borges, Paul Bowles, Franz Kafka, William S. Burroughs, Cormac McCarthy, RobertCoover and Edgar Allan Poe (among others). Evenson has expressed admiration...
"In Bed One Night" is a short story by American writer RobertCoover, originally published in 1983 by Burning Deck Press. Later, in 2014, it was re-published...
Huck Out West is a 2017 novel by American author RobertCoover. The novel concerns the lives of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn during and after the American...