Overview

Full Product Details

9780807172643

Table of Contents

Reviews

A highly perceptive analysis of Everett's oeuvre that grasps the essence of the one big book that Everett claims he has been writing, Approximate Gestures offers a powerful illustration of the ability of reading and of literary criticism to point out improved paths in life and thought, by considering uncertainty as an active political and philosophical engagement.--Anne-Laure Tissut, co-author of Percival Everett: Transatlantic Readings In Approximate Gestures, leading Everett scholar Anthony Stewart aims at the core motions behind this author's trickster-like humor, satire, and philosophical parody. Percival Everett's work is a war machine aimed point-blank at conventions and categories, unsettling them to free the infinite space of possibility lying between dichotomies, beyond exclusionary logic and the seduction of habit. Arraying an alliance of philosophy, ethical positioning, and insightful textual analysis, Stewart delves into key works, like Erasure, Glyph, American Desert or So Much Blue, perceptively engaging issues of language, literary form, religion, art and race. This new study demonstrates the importance of reading Everett: challenging literature may also be a weapon against bigotry.--Michel Feith, professor of American Literature, Universite de Nantes, France No scholar writing today possesses a keener understanding of how Everett's fiction works than Anthony Stewart. Approximate Gestures offers readers useful tools for extracting meaning from Everett's challenging fiction, especially when dealing with the fraught topic of race. --Joe Weixlmann, founding president of the Percival Everett International Society Percival Everett remains unfamiliar to far too many readers, but Anthony Stewart's lucid and unconventional examination of Everett's large and varied body of work offers some hope for changing that unfortunate situation. Approximate Gestures engages with Everett's complex philosophical and aesthetic themes while also offering an affective meditation on the cognitive and emotional effects of his work.--Derek C. Maus, author of Jesting in Earnest: Percival Everett and Menippean Satire

Percival Everett remains unfamiliar to far too many readers, but Anthony Stewart's lucid and unconventional examination of Everett's large and varied body of work offers some hope for changing that unfortunate situation. Approximate Gestures engages with Everett's complex philosophical and aesthetic themes while also offering an affective meditation on the cognitive and emotional effects of his work.--Derek C. Maus, author of Jesting in Earnest: Percival Everett and Menippean Satire No scholar writing today possesses a keener understanding of how Everett's fiction works than Anthony Stewart. Approximate Gestures offers readers useful tools for extracting meaning from Everett's challenging fiction, especially when dealing with the fraught topic of race. --Joe Weixlmann, founding president of the Percival Everett International Society In Approximate Gestures, leading Everett scholar Anthony Stewart aims at the core motions behind this author's trickster-like humor, satire, and philosophical parody. Percival Everett's work is a war machine aimed point-blank at conventions and categories, unsettling them to free the infinite space of possibility lying between dichotomies, beyond exclusionary logic and the seduction of habit. Arraying an alliance of philosophy, ethical positioning, and insightful textual analysis, Stewart delves into key works, like Erasure, Glyph, American Desert or So Much Blue, perceptively engaging issues of language, literary form, religion, art and race. This new study demonstrates the importance of reading Everett: challenging literature may also be a weapon against bigotry.--Michel Feith, professor of American Literature, Universite de Nantes, France A highly perceptive analysis of Everett's oeuvre that grasps the essence of the one big book that Everett claims he has been writing, Approximate Gestures offers a powerful illustration of the ability of reading and of literary criticism to point out improved paths in life and thought, by considering uncertainty as an active political and philosophical engagement.--Anne-Laure Tissut, co-author of Percival Everett: Transatlantic Readings

A highly perceptive analysis of Everett's oeuvre that grasps the essence of the one big book that Everett claims he has been writing, Approximate Gestures offers a powerful illustration of the ability of reading and of literary criticism to point out improved paths in life and thought, by considering uncertainty as an active political and philosophical engagement.--Anne-Laure Tissut, co-author of ""Percival Everett: Transatlantic Readings"" Percival Everett remains unfamiliar to far too many readers, but Anthony Stewart's lucid and unconventional examination of Everett's large and varied body of work offers some hope for changing that unfortunate situation. Approximate Gestures engages with Everett's complex philosophical and aesthetic themes while also offering an affective meditation on the cognitive and emotional effects of his work.--Derek C. Maus, author of ""Jesting in Earnest: Percival Everett and Menippean Satire"" In Approximate Gestures, leading Everett scholar Anthony Stewart aims at the core motions behind this author's trickster-like humor, satire, and philosophical parody. Percival Everett's work is a war machine aimed point-blank at conventions and categories, unsettling them to free the infinite space of possibility lying between dichotomies, beyond exclusionary logic and the seduction of habit. Arraying an alliance of philosophy, ethical positioning, and insightful textual analysis, Stewart delves into key works, like Erasure, Glyph, American Desert or So Much Blue, perceptively engaging issues of language, literary form, religion, art and race. This new study demonstrates the importance of reading Everett: challenging literature may also be a weapon against bigotry.--Michel Feith, professor of American Literature, Université de Nantes, France No scholar writing today possesses a keener understanding of how Everett's fiction works than Anthony Stewart. Approximate Gestures offers readers useful tools for extracting meaning from Everett's challenging fiction, especially when dealing with the fraught topic of ""race.""--Joe Weixlmann, founding president of the Percival Everett International Society

Author Information

Anthony Stewart, the John P. Crozer Chair of English Literature at Bucknell University, is the author of George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency; You Must Be a Basketball Player: Rethinking Integration in the University; and Visitor: My Life in Canada.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available