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William T. Vollmann William T. Vollmann A Critical Companion Edited by Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS Newark Published by University of Delaware Press Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 FORBES BOULEVARD, SUITE 200, LANHAM, MARYLAND 20706 www.rowman.com 16 CARLISLE STREET, LONDON W1D 3BT, UNITED KINGDOM Copyright © 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William T. Vollmann : a critical companion / edited by Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-61149-510-2 (cloth : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-61149-511-9 (electronic) 1. Vollmann, William T.--Criticism and interpretation. I. Coffman, Christopher K. II. Lukes, Daniel. PS3572.O395Z95 2014 813'.54--dc23 2014023780 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America For Michael Glawogger and Michael Hemmingson Contents Acknowledgments xi Preface: The Chrysanthemum and the Flame Thrower xiii Larry McCaffery Introduction: Lonely Atoms 1 Christopher K. Coffman I: Engaging People, Space, and Place 23 1 Egalitarian Longings: The Problem with Pity and the 25 Search for Equality in Poor People Aaron D. Chandler The World According to William T. Vollmann 47 ♦ Heather Corcoran 2 The Poetics and Politics of Zoning, Mythography, and 53 Mestizo Space in Imperial Michael K. Walonen Vollmann in Russia: On Poor People 67 ♦ Mariya Gusev 3 William T. Vollmann’s Search for Truth and 73 Community in Participative Research Georg Bauer Palm Trees 93 ♦ Michael Glawogger II: Engaging Narratives: History, Historiography, 97 Ethics 4 Vollmann’s Argall-Text: Neo-Elizabethan Form and the 99 Literalist Past in Seven Dreams Buell Wisner Vollmann between the Covers 117 ♦ Carla Bolte 5 Writing Europe: Death, History, and the Intersecting 123 Intellectual Worlds of William T. Vollmann and Danilo Kiš John K. Cox 6 Kurt Gerstein and the Tragic Parable of “Clean 141 Hands”: The Imaginative Role of Fiction in the Moral Calculus of William T. Vollmann Bryan M. Santin Reading Rising Up and Rising Down 167 ♦ James Franco 7 The New Universalism and William T. Vollmann’s 171 Rising Up and Rising Down Okla Elliott III: Power, Sex, Politics 189 8 Our Oriental Heritage: Seeking the Postcolonial 191 Postmodern in William T. Vollmann’s You Bright and Risen Angels Miles Liebtag Piss Lime Vitriol 209 ♦ Jordan A. Rothacker 9 William T. Vollmann’s Paradigms of Power 217 Joshua C. Jensen The Shattered Object: On Representation versus Self- 241 ♦ Representation and Becoming Whole Melissa Petro 10 “Strange Hungers”: William T. Vollmann’s Literary 247 Performances of Abject Masculinity Daniel Lukes A Friendship 281 ♦ Jonathan Franzen IV: Methods and Mores: Texts, Paratexts, 285 Aesthetics William T. Vollmann: Artist’s Books 287 ♦ Priscilla Juvelis 11 Imperial Photography 295 Françoise Palleau-Papin Against All Loss: On Kissing the Mask 317 ♦ Mary Austin Speaker 12 The Ethics of the Archive and the William T. Vollmann 321 Collection Geoffrey D. Smith Afterword: Beyond the Book: William T. Vollmann’s 333 End Matter (Appendices, Glossaries, and Extra Texts) Michael Hemmingson Bibliography 341 Index 351 About the Contributors 361
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