{"product_id":"9781564788429","title":"Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page","description":"\u003ci\u003eRobert Coover and the Generosity of the Page\u003c\/i\u003e is an unconventional study of Robert Coover's work from his early masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of the Brunists\u003c\/i\u003e (1966) to the recent \u003ci\u003eNoir\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). Written in the second person, it offers a self-reflexive investigation into the ways in which Coover's stories often challenge the reader to resist the conventions of sense-making and even literary criticism. By portraying characters lost in surroundings they often fail to grasp, Coover's work playfully enacts a \"(melo)drama of cognition\" that mirrors the reader's own desire to interpret and make sense of texts in unequivocal ways. This tendency in Coover's writing is indicative of a larger refusal of the ready-made, of the once-and-for-all or the authoritative, celebrating instead, in its generosity, the widening of possibilities—thus inevitably forcing the reader-critic to acknowledge the arbitrariness and artificiality of her responses.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149935132912,"sku":"9781564788429","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781564788429_p0.jpg?v=1763787610","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781564788429","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}