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Richard Patteson,
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| Richard Patteson graduated from Trinity College (Hartford, CT) and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests span much of the past two centuries, but if pressed, he will identify his major field as modern/postmodern fiction, with particular emphasis recently in Caribbean literature. His publications include more than twenty articles on writers ranging from Jane Austen to Thomas Pynchon, Ursula K. LeGuin, Vladimir Nabokov, Wallace Stevens, Peter Matthiessen, Oscar Hijuelos, and others. He is also the author of three books to date--A World Outside: The Fiction of Paul Bowles; Critical Essays on Donald Barthelme; and Caribbean Passages: A Critical Perspective on New Fiction from the West Indies. His work has been generously supported three times by the National Endowment for the Humanities and twice by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Patteson teaches Form and Theory of Fiction, The World Novel, and a graduate seminar in postcolonial literature. He is currently working on a study on the Trinidadian/Bahamian novelist Robert Antoni. |
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| Caribbean Passages Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. / January 1998. "Undoubtedly, other critics would have settled on a somewhat different five-author list . . . But [Patteson]has chosen well. The value of this volume, however, may lie in its commitment to art over ideology. . . . Patteson is to be commended for trying to shift the discourse away from condemnation of a story for an ideology that is not there to appreciation of it for the art that is there." --New West Indian Guide |
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| Critical Essays on Donald Barthelme Macmillan Library Reference / December 1991. "The most comprehensive collection of essays ever published on the contemporary American writer. . . ." --Book News |
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| A World Outside: The Fiction of Paul Bowles University of Texas Press, 1987. "Paul Bowles is one of our finest writers, and Richard Patteson has made a substantial and original contribution to our understanding of his work. A World Outside succeeds brilliantly in discussing complex ideas with clarity and force, without the usual academic hedging and without retreating into jargon. I will pay him the highest possible compliment; namely, that he has proven himself worthy of his subject." --Tobias Wolff "Richard F. Patteson's A World Outside is without question the best full-length study of Bowles's fiction to date. Patteson, while being at times theoretical, never loses sight of the stories and novels he is discussing." --Partisan Review "If all critical studies were as necessary and well executed as A World Outside, one might spend more time indoors reading them, and criticism would be not another form of alienation but the help and joy it too often is not." --American Literature |
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