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Hawkes, John - (John Clendennin Burne Hawkes, Jr.), 1925–98, American writer, b. Stamford, Conn., grad. Harvard, 1949. He taught English at Brown Univ. after 1958. Hawkes is considered one of the most original American writers of the 20th cent. His highly experimental works—complex, ambiguous, and grimly humorous—blend everyday reality with menacing hallucinations. His works

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Second Skin » Read Now
by John Hawkes. 210 pgs.

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The Cannibal » Read Now
by Albert J. Guerard, John Hawkes. 195 pgs.

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Elegant Barbarity: An Interview with John Hawkes About the Frog, in Critique » Read Now
by Donald J. Greiner. 9 pgs.

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...Elegant Barbarity: An Interview with John Hawkes about The Frog DONALD J. GREINER When John Hawkes published The Cannibal in 1949...an intriguing addition to the John...
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Hawkes' The Blood Oranges: A Sensual New Jerusalem, in Critique » Read Now
by John V. Knapp. 21 pgs.

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...of the important questions in John Hawkes The Blood Oranges ( 1971...pp. 2-6; and Charles Moran, "John Hawkes: Paradise Gaining", Massachusetts...Conversation on The Blood...
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Death, Sleep and the Traveler: John Hawkes' Return to Terror, in Critique » Read Now
by Donald J. Greiner. 13 pgs.

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...Death, Sleep the Traveler: John Hawkes Return to Terror DONALD J. GREINER John Hawkes has spent most of his adult life...SOUTH CAROLINA NOTES 1 " John Hawkes on His Novels:...
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The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction (Chap. 4 "Eros and Thanatos: Hawkes' Blood Oranges") » Read Now
by Gordon E. Slethaug. 236 pgs.

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...4. Eros and Thanatos: Hawkess Blood Oranges 93...to such moderns as Saul Bellow, John Updike, Ursula LeGuin, Toni Morrison...Leslie Fiedler, William Gass, John Hawkes...
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The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain: Reading Politics as Paradox (Chap. V "Theory, Madness, and the State: Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain and John Hawkes' Travesty") » Read Now
by Barbara J. Eckstein. 214 pgs.

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...Ibuse Masujis Black Rain and John Hawkess Travesty 157 Uncertainty...Nadine Gordimer, Ibuse Masuji and John Hawkes. I choose to juxtapose selected...Finally, I choose to...
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Stages of the Clown: Perspectives on Modern Fiction From Dostoyevsky to Beckett (Chap. 7 "Harlequin: The Character of the Clown in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King and John Hawkes' Second Skin") » Read Now
by Richard Pearce. 170 pgs.

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...Franz Kafka, Flannery OConnor, William Faulkner, John Hawkes, Vladimir Nabokov, Gunter Grass, and William Burroughs...situation. Saul Bellow Henderson the Rain King and...
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Contemporary American Novelists ("John Hawkes: the Smile Slashed by A Razor" begins on p. 193) » Read Now
by Harry T. Moore. 238 pgs.

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...Louis Post-Dispatch , writes on John Hawkes, of whose work he has long been a...who writes on William Styron and John Updike, is the author of two volumes...Terry Southern...
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John Hawkes, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction » Read Now
by Roy Flannagan. 74 pgs.

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Deconstruction of Genre in John Hawkes's Whistlejacket, in Critique » Read Now
by Teppo Kainulainen. 11 pgs.

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...Deconstruction of Genre in John Hawkess Whistlejacket TEPPO KAINULAINEN...postmodern novels, notably those of John Hawkes, subvert traditional categories...signification...
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Psychic Sores in Search of Compassion: Hawkes' Death, Sleep & the Traveler, in Critique » Read Now
by Elisabeth Kraus. 14 pgs.

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...Allert, the Dutch anti-hero of John Hawkes Death, Sleep the Traveler...UNIVERSITAET GRAZ NOTES 1 John Hawkes, Death, Sleep the Traveler...are to this edition. 2 "John...